Lexington, also Lexington-Fayette, consolidated city with Fayette County, north central Kentucky. The surrounding area, known as the Inner Bluegrass region, is a leading world center for horse breeding and sales. Lexington is also a regional retail, financial, manufacturing, and educational center. Products include computer printers, automobiles and parts, electrical and electronic equipment, paper goods, and processed food. The city is served by Blue Grass Airport.
Tourists are attracted to the area's many horse farms and to the city's points of interest, among them Ashland, the home of the statesman Henry Clay; Hopemont (1814), the Hunt-Morgan House, home of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his nephew, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan; and the home of Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, in the Western Suburb Historic District.
