Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1849 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area. It now contains more than 64,000 interments.
Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Within the cemetery are three places that are listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places from the main cemetery: Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, and Lexington National Cemetery.
Famous Interments[]
- George Madison Adams
- James Lane Allen
- Milton Kirtley Barlow
- James B. Beck
- John Bryan Bowman
- Cabell Breckinridge
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge
- Henry Skillman Breckinridge
- John Breckinridge
- John Bayne Breckinridge
- John C. Breckinrdige
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
- Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
- Gay Brewer
- John Y. Brown, Sr.
- Sanders Dewees Bruce
- Aylette Buckner
- Abraham Buford
- Joseph Henry Bush
- Stephen Chipley
- William Stout Chipley
- Thomas D. Clark
- Henry Clay
- James Brown Clay
- Laura Clay
- Mary Barr Clay
- John Winston Coleman, Jr.
- Leslie Combs
- Robert Wickliffe Cooper
- Jesse Orin Creech
- Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley
- Basil Wilson Duke
- Josiah Dunham
- Henry Clay Dunlap
- Andrew Eugene Erwin
- Ralph Wesley Foody
- Joseph S. Fowler
- John Ryan Gaines
- Randall Lee Gibson
- Gordon Granger
- Roger Weightman Hanson
- Thomas H. Hunt
- Martin Huston
- John Telemachus Johnson
- Wallace Jones
- Ralph Kercheval
- William Preston Kimball
- Alexander Keith Marshall
- Thomas Alexander Marshall
- Henry Brainerd McClellan
- Hugh Wilson McKee
- John McMurtry
- John Hunt Morgan
- James Reily
- George Robertson
- Kenny Rollins
- Arthur Blythe Rouse
- Adolph Rupp
- George S. Shanklin
- Jouett Shouse
- King Swope
- William Henry Townsend
- Thomas R. Underwood
- Jim Varney
- Adalin Wichman
- Katharine Elliott Wilkie
- Elisha I. Winter