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A settlement near Tates Creek Road
A 2023 Herald-Leader account, drawing on city records and Krista Schneider’s research, dates Jonestown to 1893 and describes a 46-acre settlement near Tates Creek and Armstrong Mill roads.
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What survives in the name
The same account reports rezoning for houses and apartments in the 1980s and demolition of the original buildings. Jonestown School appears in the Lexington History Museum’s segregated county school list. The street name is a surviving clue to this earlier community.
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Sources and further reading
- Lexington Herald-Leader: rural Black hamlets, 2023 ↗
- Lexington History Museum: Fayette County Board of Education ↗
- Map reference source ↗
Location note: Historic Jonestown general gazetteer reference; not surviving buildings or original boundary.
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