2 mi. SE of Lexington on Richmond Rd., Lexington, Kentucky. County/parish: Fayette.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000357.
5 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by enslaved people who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.
Ashland is a registered National Historic Landmark. The Ashland Stakes, a Thoroughbred horse race at Keeneland Race Course that has run annually since the race course first opened in 1936, was named for the historically important estate.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123849128