Louisville, Frankfort, & Lexington Railroad
1857 to 1881
Railroad company. In operation from 1857, by consolidation of Lexington & Frankfort and Louisville & Frankfort railroad lines, to 1881. Purchased by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1881.
Bibliography
Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 549.
J.H. Battle, Kiffin, G.C., Perrin, W.H.,Kentucky: History of the State, 7th edition (Louisville, KY: F.A. Battery and Company, 1887), 524-526.
Citation
Louisville, Frankfort, & Lexington Railroad. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215271 (November 12, 2026).
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