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Fayette COUNTY · rural

Little Georgetown

A Black community on Parkers Mill Road, beside a landscape transformed by the airport.

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A documented rural community

The Bowman Mill Road Rural Historic District nomination identifies Little Georgetown as a late nineteenth-century African American community northwest of that district. It records a consensus determination of National Register eligibility in 1996; eligibility is different from formal listing.

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School and surrounding change

The Lexington History Museum identifies Little Georgetown School on Parkers Mill Pike. The 1999 rural settlement study notes the airport’s effect on the community and advises against further development there.

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Location note: GNIS-derived Little Georgetown general place reference; not the community boundary.

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