Tracking down Mrs. Calhoun was like trying to catch up with Paul Revere between Lexington and Concord.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

Lincoln's father-in-law was based in Lexington, Kentucky ; he and others of the Todd family were either slave owners or slave traders.

Lincoln was close to the Todds, and he and his family occasionally visited the Todd estate in Lexington.

He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.

He made his headquarters at Chicago's Lexington Hotel ; after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, it was nicknamed " Capone's Castle ".

The US Navy warship Lexington visited the atoll in late 1915 and advised evacuation of all inhabitants, but the governor, Captain Arnaud, declared that evacuation was not necessary.

Atchison was born to William Atchison in Frogtown ( later Kirklevington ), which is now part of Lexington, Kentucky.

He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators ( Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ).

* 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.

The attack was planned to take place on April 19, 1995, to coincide with the anniversary of the Waco Siege and the 220th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

The only subway line running between Midtown and Lower Manhattan was the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, which was overcrowded before the attacks and at crush density until the BMT Broadway Line reopened.

Morgan was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to Charlton Hunt Morgan and Ellen Key Howard Morgan.

On September 8, a four-mile stretch on K-10 between the Edgerton Road exit and the DeSoto interchange at former K-285 ( now Lexington Avenue ) was closed for shooting highway scenes representing a mass exodus on Interstate 70.

In the June 2008 issue of Texas Monthly Magazine Snow's BBQ in Lexington was rated as the best BBQ in the state of Texas.

Perhaps the most pervasive influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song " Yankee Doodle ", which was popular during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) as, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, it was broadly adopted by American rebels.

* Great Windmill Street ( below Lexington Street on map-not indicated ) was home to the Windmill Theatre " which never closed ".

Born near Lexington, Kentucky to Carter Henry Harrison II and Caroline Russell, he was only a few months old when his father died.

A memorial service was held for Crawford at All Souls ' Unitarian Church on Lexington Avenue in New York on May 16, 1977, and was attended by, among others, her old Hollywood friend Myrna Loy.

The first restaurant was opened in 1969 in Lexington, Kentucky.

The chain began as a division of Jerrico, Inc., which also operated Jerry's Restaurants, a chain of family restaurants which also began in Lexington, and that was very similar to Big Boy restaurants.

On May 10, 1775, less than one month after the American Revolutionary War was ignited with the battles of Lexington and Concord, the British garrison of 48 soldiers was surprised by a small force of Green Mountain Boys, along with militia volunteers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.

* Lexington ( United States ) — named for Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

Named after the famous statesman Henry Clay, the county seat itself was named after his estate in Lexington, Kentucky called " Ashland ".

Ashland County was named in honor of the Lexington estate of Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, as one of the founders of the city of Ashland was an admirer of Clay.

Its county seat is New Lexington, and it is named for Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the War of 1812.

It is named for " Ashland ", the home of Senator Henry Clay near Lexington, Kentucky.

Like the county seat, it was named after Ashland, the Lexington, Kentucky-area home of Henry Clay, a Kentucky senator.

The village of Gridley was founded in 1869 and named after General Asahel Gridley ( or Ashael Gridley ), a noted early Republican, land investor, political backer and client of Abraham Lincoln, and a descendant of a Colonel Gridley who served at the Battle of Lexington.

The name Wilder dates back to a railroad station built in the mid-19th century for the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Lexington railway named Wilder station.

After the acquisition was finalized, plans were made to extend the Lexington and Eastern Railroad from Jackson to a town named McRoberts.

The community came into being with the establishment of the Patuxent Naval Air Station during World War II, and was named for the recently sunk USS Lexington aircraft carrier.

Ashland was named after Kentucky Congressman Henry Clay ’ s estate in Lexington, Kentucky.

It was settled largely by Kentuckians and was named for Lexington, Kentucky.

The settlers named their community in honor of Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the first skirmish of the American Revolutionary War.

The town was named after Lexington, Kentucky.

Ashland is named after the Lexington, Kentucky estate of Hanover County native and statesman Henry Clay.

By the 1960s sales of the Americana and its sister publications under Grolier — The Book of Knowledge, the Book of Popular Science, and Lands and Peoples — were strong enough to support the company's occupancy of a large building ( variously named the Americana Building and the Grolier Building ) in Midtown Manhattan, at 575 Lexington Avenue.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original New York City street grid established in the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue ( formerly Fourth ) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles, a graduate of Yale University who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, who was in part responsible for the development of Union Square, and who also named Lexington Avenue.

In New York City the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, on 106th street and Lexington Avenue, is named after her.

Buell Armory on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Kentucky, is named for General Buell.

The January 1961 Kentucky Guardsman reported a story noting Harold Rogers recognition in his selection as soldier of the year, stating, " Specialist Fourth Class Harold ( Hal ) Rogers has been named “ Soldier of the Year ” by vote of the 125 member Battery A of the Fifth Observation Battalion at Lexington.

At MIT in 1950, the committee sponsored Project Hartwell, named for the Hartwell Farms restaurant in Lexington, MA, where some of the initial steps were planned.

This has been named the " Kentucky Cocktail ", and it is a signature drink at some Kentucky establishments such as the Marriott Griffin Gate in Lexington.

Sir Barton and Star Shoot both have a street named in their honor in Lexington, Kentucky, in the Hamburg Shopping Center.