Weisenberger Mills and Related Buildings

Weisenberger Mills is the oldest continuously operating grain mill in Kentucky. Located about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Midway, Kentucky, the property straddles Scott and Woodford counties, and the mill is located on the banks of South Elkhorn Creek with a milldam which provides the water to power the mill.

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University Club of Kentucky

The University Club of Kentucky, located in Lexington, Kentucky, is a semi-private golf course privately licensed by University of Kentucky. The course is the official home of the university's men's and women's golf teams and serves as the host site for all of UK's tournaments. The current setup was designed by famed golf course architect Arthur Hills. The facility consists of two separate eighteen hole courses. Featuring the Big Blue Course and the Wildcat Course, these landscapes are complemented by a dozen lakes and ponds, providing players with a beautiful and challenging round of golf.

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Three Chimneys Farm

Three Chimneys Farm is an American Thoroughbred race horse breeding farm in Midway, Kentucky, established in 1972 by Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Clay. Three Chimneys has been home to a number of famous horses including U.S. Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew, U.S. Filly Triple Crown champion Chris Evert, as well as Silver Charm, Chief's Crown, Genuine Risk, Point Given, Slew o' Gold, Capote, Smarty Jones, and Big Brown. In 2012, the Three Chimneys stallion roster includes Rahy, Point Given, Yes It's True, Flower Alley, Good Reward, Sky Mesa, War Chant, and Big Brown. Flower Alley sired the 2012 Kentucky Derby Winner and Preakness Stakes winner, I'll Have Another. In April 2008, The Kentucky region of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Three Chimneys Farm teamed up to grant a young boy's wish of meeting Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Smarty Jones. His experience was chronicled June 30 during SportsCenter's "My Wish" series on ESPN. Nine-year-old Patrick Munro of Greenlawn, N.Y. is one of five kids from the Make-A-Wish Foundation whose sports-related wish was highlighted on the SportsCenter series. Patrick, who suffers from hydrocephalus and, as a result, is blind and hearing impaired, spent several days in Central Kentucky in April. On the first day of his visit, Munro and his family were invited to Three Chimneys Farm to fulfill the boy's wish to meet Smarty Jones. In 2024, Lexington equestrian Tony Cissell assumed the position of the Farm's general manager and Chief operating officer after Chris Baker's resignation.

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Audubon

Audubon is one of a pair of Greek Revival houses built across from each other on Moore's Mill Pike in Scott County, Kentucky. The property was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973.

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Redd Road Rural Historic District

The Redd Road Rural Historic District is a 1,646 acres historic district in Fayette County, Kentucky and Woodford County, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is an area largely south and east of the junction of Redd and Frankfort Roads, and included 39 contributing buildings, 10 contributing structures, and 11 contributing sites. It consists of seven adjoining farmsteads.

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Midway University

Midway University is a private Christian university in Midway, Kentucky, United States. Related by covenant to the Christian Church, it enrolls approximately 2,000 students earning associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. Midway began as an orphan school for female students in 1847 and over the decades evolved from a high school, to a junior college, and then a four-year women's college, the only one in Kentucky. The college became a university in July 2015 and in the fall of 2016 became fully coeducational.

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Augustus Weisenberger purchased the property with mill in 1865. The current mill building was built in 1913 to replace the old 1818 stone one. The complex includes a 20-foot wheelhouse and a 1904 20,000 bushel ironclad grain elevator. The mill property and related buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, including 14 contributing buildings and two contributing structures on 87 acres (35 ha).

As of 2023, the water-powered mill has been operated as a family business since the 1860s by six generations of Weisenbergers. The mill produces flour, meal, feed and baking mixes which are shipped throughout the country. All of their grains are sourced locally, within 100 miles.