Little Georgetown Cemetery
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosLocated on Parkers Mill Road in Fayette County, one version of the community's beginning states holds that a settler named George Waltz gave land to his former slaves following the Civil War. Another version maintains it was named after George Washington, a freed man of color who owned a portion of the land and divided it into lots in 1877. In that year, the community had three other African-American land owners: Frank Smith Sr., J. Edmunds, and M. Overstreet.
The prefix "Little" was added to the name of the community to differentiate it from the city of Georgetown, in Scott County, Kentucky. Over the years, Little Georgetown grew to include 90 residents on 34 acres.
The community is known to have had its own cemetery which appears not to have been attached to a church, but was a community burying ground in which residents owned their own family plots. Interments were ongoing there through at least 1950. There is presently no evidence to show that the graves were removed and re-interred elsewhere.
The expansion of original Lexington Bluegrass Airport after World War II resulted in the eventual destruction of the community.
On the 1870 census, Little Georgetown was located in Fayette County's Census Precinct 5.
On the 1880 census it was located within the South Elkhorn District of the County.
As of the 1900 census it was within Magisterial District No. 8.
By the 1910 census it was identified as part of the Fort Spring District.
Located on Parkers Mill Road in Fayette County, one version of the community's beginning states holds that a settler named George Waltz gave land to his former slaves following the Civil War. Another version maintains it was named after George Washington, a freed man of color who owned a portion of the land and divided it into lots in 1877. In that year, the community had three other African-American land owners: Frank Smith Sr., J. Edmunds, and M. Overstreet.
The prefix "Little" was added to the name of the community to differentiate it from the city of Georgetown, in Scott County, Kentucky. Over the years, Little Georgetown grew to include 90 residents on 34 acres.
The community is known to have had its own cemetery which appears not to have been attached to a church, but was a community burying ground in which residents owned their own family plots. Interments were ongoing there through at least 1950. There is presently no evidence to show that the graves were removed and re-interred elsewhere.
The expansion of original Lexington Bluegrass Airport after World War II resulted in the eventual destruction of the community.
On the 1870 census, Little Georgetown was located in Fayette County's Census Precinct 5.
On the 1880 census it was located within the South Elkhorn District of the County.
As of the 1900 census it was within Magisterial District No. 8.
By the 1910 census it was identified as part of the Fort Spring District.
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- Added: 13 Jul 2019
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2688258
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