Lexington
The city of Lexington, seat of the University of Kentucky and an important economic and cultural center, lies in the heart of the Bluegrass Country, a fertile rolling plateau on which tobacco is grown. The region is famed for its horse breeding, and Lexington claims the title of
"horse capital of the world". The horse paddocks enclosed by white fences are characteristic features of the landscape.
History The town was officially founded in 1781, but the place had already been given its name by a group of patriots some years earlier, after the battle of Lexington in Massachusetts. It is now an important center of the tobacco trade and an industrial town.
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