Historic Shrines of America

Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky

3 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky

THE HOME OF HENRY CLAY FOR FORTY-SIX YEARS Henry Clay's mother, having married Captain Henry Watkins, moved from Hanover, Virginia, to…

Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky: Virginia

Thus replied Esther Whitley of Augusta, Virginia, to her husband William Whitley, when, early in 1775, he had told her that he had a fine…

Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky: Indians

Until his death at the battle of the Thames in 1813 Whitley was one of the chief defenders of the settlers THROUGH THE SUNNY SOUTH against…

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