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It’s one part of our commitment to keeping the Lexington Cemetery as beautiful and affordable in the future as it is today. We invite you to visit, and to inquire about interment options including burial lots, mausoleum crypts, niches, cremation and memorialization options.
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The cemetery is located on the north side of W. Main Street (US 421) from Price Road to about 0.1 miles west of Newtown Pike (US 25). The cemetery was established in 1849. The Lexington National Cemetery is located along West Main Street on the grounds of the Lexington Cemetery.
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Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area.
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P: (859) 255-5522. Visit Website E-mail. The Lexington Cemetery is nationally recognized as one of America's most beautiful arboretums and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places for landscape design.
Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge provided the dedicatory address. Just two years after its dedication, Lexington Cemetery received national recognition when statesman Henry Clay was laid to rest there. In 1857, the cornerstone for a massive monument to the “Great Compromiser” was placed above his grave.
