For Lexington, the African American population more than doubled between 1860 and 1870. This was due largely to recently freed enslaved people migrating from rural areas to more urban areas. In response to this influx, landowners and developers…

This Italianate cottage was the home of Edward Dudley Brown (1848-1906), who in one lifetime went from slave to jockey to trainer to owner. Separated from his family at eight and sold into slavery to Robert A. Alexander of Woodburn Farm in Woodford…

Winn Gunn, an ardent abolitionist who lived at 340 East Third Street, bought a 14-acre tract of land between Deweese and Race streets after the Civil War. There he developed Gunntown, a community of small shotgun houses built on narrow lots,…

After Kentucky finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 and all of the state’s Black citizens were officially free, the state saw a huge shift in the Black population as they left agricultural areas and moved to cities and towns.…

As you begin your tour, please enjoy the Blue Grass Trust's recording of Frank X Walker reading his poem, "Ode to the East End." The poem is displayed as a mural on the side of the MET, featured as the beginning of this tour and located at 576 E…