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The Elkhorn City Living Cemetery Project
The Elkhorn City Living Cemetery Project - The Elkhorn City Living Cemetery Project View interactive Map requires flash. This interactive map that provides information for individual grave plots. Users can pan and zoom to selected grave plots and click to read information about the deceased. This project was supported by the U.K. Appalachian Center, Elkhorn City Heritage Council, and the Kentucky Humanities Council
Rephotographing Lexington's Streetscapes
Rephotographing Lexington's Streetscapes - Rephotographing Lexington's Streetscapes View Google Map A collaborative final project for GEO 172, Introduction to Human Geography, Fall 2012, BCTCS The class was tasked with rephotographing the streetscapes of downtown Lexington captured by Asa Coleman Chin in 1920-1921. Sanborn maps of the areas Chin photographed are provided as a reference. Students then researched Lexington newspapers for information about city life during the period 1907-1921. Historic themes of urban improvement, segregation, and riots emerge. Students' photographs & research show monumental change in areas of civic life, but often little change in many areas of the city's built environment. Sources: Kentuckiana Digital Library & Lexington Public Library