Spears, Kentucky

Tates Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is a tributary to the Kentucky River. Tates Creek was named after Samuel Tate, a frontiersman who ran up its course in the 1770s in order to escape Indians.

The Valley View Ferry provides passage over the Kentucky River in rural central Kentucky. Located on Kentucky Route 169, this ferry service connects auto traffic between the county seats of Richmond in Madison County, Nicholasville in Jessamine County and Lexington Kentucky. The route leads you directly to downtown Richmond, Lexington and Nicholasville. The ferry was founded in 1780, predating Kentucky's admission to the Union in 1792. It is widely regarded as the commonwealth's oldest continually operating business. John Craig, a Virginia veteran of the Revolutionary War, acquired land in the area in 1780 through a military warrant. In 1785, the Virginia General Assembly granted Craig "a perpetual and irrevocable" franchise to operate a ferry. Daniel Boone, Henry Clay, James Mason and Ulysses S. Grant were among its passengers. The ferry remained a privately owned business for more than 200 years, passing through the hands of seven successive families until 1991. It was then purchased jointly by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and Madison and Jessamine counties for $60,000. The rudderless ferry is guided by cables stretching between four 55-foot towers. The entire ferry site was renovated in 1998, when authorities replaced the four towers and their cables. Two years later, the ferry authority received a federal grant allowing an upgrade of the barge. The new vessel, longer than its predecessor by ten feet, enables the ferry to carry three cars instead of two. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet funds the ferry as a free service. On average it transports 250 cars a day.

Valley View is an unincorporated community located in Madison County, Kentucky, United States. The community is part of the Richmond–Berea Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 169 and Kentucky Route 1156. It is the location of the Valley View Ferry.

The McClure–Shelby House near Nicholasville, Kentucky was built in c. 1840. It includes elements of Greek Revival architecture and Federal architecture. The 33-acre (13 ha) property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It then included three contributing buildings.The house was built for farmer and landowner Andrew McClure. His daughter, Sarah B. McClure, later married Isaac Shelby, a grandson of Isaac Shelby, first governor of the Kentucky.

Logana is an unincorporated community located in Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office is no longer in service.

Juddmonte Farms is a horse breeding farm, owned until his death on 12 January 2021 by Prince Khalid bin Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

The John Hunter House in Jessamine County, Kentucky, near Logana, Kentucky, was built in 1792. It has also been known as the Old County Poor Farm. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.It was built for one of the first two European-descent settlers in the county, John Jacob Hunter. The house was used for a time as a county poor farm during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The Shelby Family Houses near Lexington, Kentucky are five houses that together were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.The listing covers: "Greenfields", 5510 Richmond Road, Lexington "Grassland" (1823), Shelby Lane, Lexington, an L-shaped two-and-a-half-story brick house "Richland" (1820s or 1830s), Richmond Road, Lexington "Ruemont", Jacks Creek Pike, Lexington "Highland Hall", 6208 Richmond Rd., Lexington, Kentucky, which is separately listed on the National Register.A sixth house, "Belair", is excluded from the National Register listing.The 20.1-acre (8.1 ha) listing included, in 1978, 10 contributing buildings and one other contributing site.

On July 13, 2025, a series of shootings took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States that left three people dead, including the perpetrator, along with three others critically wounded, including a state trooper that was shot twice during the initial shooting.

The Cleveland-Rogers House, located in what is now Lexington, Kentucky at 8151 Richmond Rd., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Also known as Riverside Farm, the listing included two contributing buildings and a contributing structure. A log cabin on the property was built in 1786. The main house is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay, brick building, built c. 1819. The front facade's brick is laid in Flemish bond; common bond is used elsewhere. It is a contributing building in the Boone Creek Rural Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1994.

Hartland is a neighborhood in southeastern Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Tates Creek Road to the west, Armstrong Mill Road to the east, the Lexington urban growth boundary to the south, and Kenesaw Drive to the north.

WCGW (770 AM) is a Christian radio station licensed to Nicholasville, Kentucky serving all of Central Kentucky. It broadcasts Southern gospel and country gospel music format. WCGW leaves the air from sunset to sunrise to protect the nighttime skywave signal of WABC in New York City. WABC is a Class A station and its 770 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency.