The History of Lexington begins in the mist of prehistory. It is believed that it was originally "an ancient walled city of vast extent and population," complete with stone mounds and mummies in subterranean cemeteries. The Indians later entered this region and called it "Kantuckee," meaning "dark and bloody ground." They regarded with "suspicious awe" the land once occupied by a "strange race which their ancestor had long ago exterminated." With the arrival of the White Man, the Red Man faced a similar fate. Although Daniel Boone first gazed across Kentucky in 1769, and several hunting and...