Opportunities abound for establishing connections between significant historical and cultural features, particularly within the urban area.  Much evidence of Lexington’s past still remains, providing potential nodes of interest along the corridor.  All of the following features are delineated on the inventory and analysis map pages.

- Historic Western Suburb:  Characteristic of development in Lexington in the 19th Century.  The district was one of Lexington’s first suburbs (1830’s) and representative of a working-class neighborhood.

- Woodward Heights:  Area of development in Lexington through 1890-1910, representing working-class neighborhoods of  tradesmen and industrialists.

- Mary Todd Lincoln House:  Home of Kentucky Senator Robert S. Todd, father of Mary Todd, wife of President Abraham Lincoln

- Lexington Cemetery:  Developedin 1849, this cemetery is representative of garden cemetery design of the 19th century and was designed to be park-like in setting for passive recreation (walking, strolling, etc.) of nearby residents and visitors.  Henry Clay’s monument, a state registered historic landmark, is located there. 

- James E. Pepper and Co. Distillery:  Some of buildings remain from one of Lexington’s first bourbon distilleries.

- William McConnell house:  Built on land granted to William McConnell, one of the area’s first explorers in the late 18th Century.

- McConnell Station:  Built by James McConnell, brother and heir of Francis McConnell who was a founder of Lexington.  The McConnell houses are two of the three oldest buildings in Lexington.

- McConnell Springs:  A portion of the original tract of land claimed by William McConnell in 1775,  which came to be the first settlement in Lexington.  The land has also been the site of Trotter Gunpowder Factory, a grist mill, and two distilleries.  McConnell Springs is now a city-owned public park and interpretive center.

- Masterson Station:  Once the home of devout Methodists, James Masterson and wife.  Their two-story log cabin was the site of the first Methodist conference west of the Alleghenies in 1790.  Masterson Station is now a city’s largest publicly owned park.

- Lexington’s first jail (ruins)

- Lexington Civic Center, Rupp Arena, Victorian Square, and Triangle Park:  The recognized commercial center of the downtown for visitors and tourists.  The Town Branch runs directly underneath the Civic Center before daylighting in the rear parking lot. 

- Thoroughbred Park: A landmark city park that marks the eastern/northern entry into the downtown.  The Town Branch runs underground here along Midland Avenue before extending west under Water and Vine Streets.  This park could serve as the trailhead of the urban portion of the greenway.

- Lexington History Museum(“Old Courthouse”): Expected to  occupy the current historic Courthouse when the new District and Circuit Courthouses are completed in spring 2001. 

- New Courthouse Complex Plaza/Phoenix Park:  Soon to be Lexington’s central civic space in the downtown. 

- Kentucky Tech

- VA Hospital

- The urban channel of the Town Branch contains some of the first and most comprehensive concentration of 
dry stone masonry within Fayette County. 

-  Neighborhoods parks/openspace
        - Pyramid Park 
        - Woodward Heights Park
        - Spiegle Heights Park

-  Local neighborhoods
        - Meadowthorpe 
        - Melrose/Oak Park
        - South Hill
        - Speigle Heights
        - Woodward Heights
        - Irishtown
        - Davis Bottoms
        - Western Suburb
        - Pleasant Green Hill
        - Bracktown
        - Masterson Station neighborhood and other developing suburbs

- Adjacent Horse Farms