Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument

About this landmark

A 170-acre cemetery and arboretum founded in 1848, in part to handle burials after the 1833 cholera epidemic. Henry Clay is buried here under a monument, along with Confederate general and U.S. Vice President John C. Breckinridge, suffragist Laura Clay, and former governor John Y. Brown Jr.

Details

Year Built

1848

Style

Rural cemetery

Period

Antebellum

Era

1848