Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Lexington, MO

Lexington is the county seat of Lafayette County, Missouri, a Missouri River bluff town about 40 miles east of Kansas City, platted in 1822 near William Jack's Ferry, which had operated on the river since 1819.

Lexington was founded by Gilead Rupe and named in commemoration of the Battle of Lexington, became the Lafayette County seat in 1823, and was incorporated in 1845.

The Greek Revival Lafayette County Courthouse in Lexington, built in 1847, is the oldest courthouse in continuous use west of the Mississippi River and still bears scars from the Civil War battle fought around it.

Lexington is the site of the Battle of Lexington, also called the Battle of the Hemp Bales, fought September 18–20, 1861, when Confederate forces under Sterling Price defeated Union troops; the battlefield is preserved as the Battle of Lexington State Historic Site.

The Anderson House of 1853, overlooking the Lexington battlefield, was used as a field hospital by both sides during the battle and is now part of the state historic site.

Lexington was home to Wentworth Military Academy, founded in 1880, which drew cadets from across the country and around the world until it closed in 2017.

The nation's first Masonic college operated in Lexington from 1846 to 1859.

Lexington still has more than 150 homes and public buildings built before the Civil War, and dozens of its properties — including the courthouse, the battlefield, and the Wentworth campus — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Aull brothers opened a mercantile store in Lexington in 1822 that grew into a frontier chain with stores in Independence, Westport, and Liberty.

Lexington had 4,652 residents at the 2020 census; in 2010 the census counted 4,726 people in 1,867 households.