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When a group of frontiersmen camped on the middle fork of Elkhorn Creek heard about the militiamen's deaths in Massachusetts, they decided to name their outpost for the historic event. That is why what was then a part of Virginia is known today as Lexington, Kentucky.

( Nathaniel Philbrick )
[ Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, ]
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