Sights in Bluegrass Country
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Kentucky Horse Park
An educational theme park and equestrian sports center sits on 1200 acres just north of Lexington. Horses representing 50 different breeds live in the park and participate in special live shows. Also included, the international Museum of the Horse has neat dioramas of the horse through history, from the tiny prehistoric 'eohippus' to the pony express mail carriers. Seasonal horseback riding costs $22. The adjacent American Saddlebred Museum focuses on America's first registered horse breed – for hard-core enthusiasts only.
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Headley-Whitney Museum
This marvelously old place holds the private collection of the late George Headley, a jewelry designer whose gemstone trinkets and handmade dollhouses are on display, along with a truly bizarre garage turned 'seashell grotto.'
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Mary Todd-Lincoln House
The 1806 house has articles from the first lady's childhood and her years as Abe's wife.
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Hunt-Morgan House
Hunt-Morgan House is a fine Federal-style mansion (c 1814) with a small Civil War museum.
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Ashland
Just 1.5 miles east of downtown, it was the Italianate estate of statesman Henry Clay (1777–1852).
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Waveland
A 19th-century plantation.
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