Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate

Famed Kentucky statesman Henry Clay built his mansion home, Ashland, in 1812, which was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960. Clay was a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, and served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of ...

Henry Clay's Law Office

Henry Clay, "the Star of the West" and important 19th-century political figure, began his law practice in this small brick building. The one-story office was built by Clay in 1803 and measures a mere 20 by 22 feet. Born in ...

Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument

The nationally reputed garden cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky, is the burial site of many notable Kentuckians. Lexington Cemetery was the first rural cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. The burial ground was originally established in 1849 on 40 acres of land but ...

Henry Clay's Law Office

Erected 1803-04, this is the only office standing used by Clay; he occupied it from 1804 until ca. 1810. During these significant years in his career, Clay was elected to successive terms in legislature and to unexpired terms in the ...

Henry Clay

1777 - 1852

Visitors familiar with Lexington's Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, know it as a graceful old house, with lovely gardens and grounds. In an earlier time, when Henry Clay built it to some 2,000 acres, Ashland was also ...

National Historic Landmark- Henry D. Clayton House

From 1896 to 1929, this was the home of Henry D. Clayton, Jr. (1857-1929), author of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914), which was designed to enumerate and outlaw a number of unfair trade practices and interlocking arrangements that had been ...

Henry Clay Furnace / Iron Made in Kentucky

Henry Clay Furnace

Built 7¼ miles east in 1832 by Aylette Hartswell Buckner, S.V. Leedom, Cadwallader Churchill. A stone stack about 35 ft. high, 9 ft. across at widest inside, it burned charcoal fuel to produce pig iron and utensils from ...

Henry Clay Frick

In memory of

Henry Clay Frick

1849 - 1919

Native of this District

Coal and Coke Magnate

Ironmaster Capitalist

and Philanthropist who

began his financial

career as a clerk in

a store located in this

building owned and

managed by his uncle

Martin Overholt

This tablet is erected in his honor

Marker is on ...

Henry Clay Frick

(1849-1919)

Pittsburgh industrialist and philanthropist, Frick was instrumental in the organization of the coke and steel industries. His controversial management style while chairman of Carnegie Steel led to the bloody Homestead Strike, 1892.

Marker is at the intersection of Grant Street and ...