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Lexington was founded in 1775 by a party led by William McConnell and named for the Battle of Lexington in Massachusetts - 17 years before Kentucky became a state in 1792.

Lexington is the seat of Fayette County, and in 1974 the city and county merged into the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, one of America's early consolidated city-county governments.

Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky, with 322,570 residents in the 2020 census and an estimated 329,751 in 2025.

Lexington has about 139,715 households averaging 2.23 people each, and about 53.8% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Lexington is known worldwide as the 'Horse Capital of the World,' a Thoroughbred breeding center since the late 1700s, thanks in part to the calcium-rich soil of the Inner Bluegrass, which produces horses with stronger bones.

Lexington's Keeneland Race Course, which opened in 1936, runs its celebrated live race meets each April and October and has changed little since it was built.

Lexington's Red Mile harness track is the oldest horse racing track in the city and the second-oldest in the nation.

The Kentucky Horse Park, a working horse farm and theme park that opened in Lexington in 1978, hosts equestrian events and museums celebrating the horse.

To protect its famous horse farms, Lexington enacted the nation's first urban growth boundary in 1958, keeping development inside a ring around the city.

Lexington's Transylvania University, founded in 1780, is the oldest university west of the Allegheny Mountains.