The Lexington Extension of the Louisville Southern Railroad, in

Anderson Anderson or Andersson may refer to: Companies * Anderson (Carriage), a company that manufactured automobiles from 1907 to 1910 * Anderson Electric, an early 20th-century electric car * Anderson Greenwood, an industrial manufacturer * Anderson Ra ...

and

Woodford Woodford may refer to: Places Australia *Woodford, New South Wales *Woodford, Queensland, a town in the Moreton Bay Region *Woodford, Victoria Canada * Woodford, Ontario England *Woodford, Cornwall * Woodford, Gloucestershire *Woodford, Greate ...

counties near

Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Lawrenceburg is a home rule-class city in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 10,505 at the 2010 census. It is the seat of its county. Lawrenceburg is part of the Frankfort, Kentucky, micropolitan statistical area. His ...

, was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2004. The listing included the no-longer-actively-used portion, about , of the Lexington Extension, which was built in 1889 by the

Louisville Southern Railroad The Louisville Southern Railroad (abbreviated: LS) was a 19th-century railway company in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It operated from until , when it was incorporated into the Southern Railway in Kentucky. Originally incorporated as the Louisv ...

. The listing included seven

contributing structures In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

. This portion is between Lawrenceburg and

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, u ...

and includes the

Young's High Bridge Young's High Bridge, also known as the Jo Blackburn Bridge, is a former railroad bridge near Tyrone, Kentucky, USA, that spans the Kentucky River between Anderson County, Kentucky and Woodford County, Kentucky for the Louisville Southern Railroa ...

and the Cedar Brook Viaduct, as well as three wooden

trestle bridges A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle support, trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of ...

. With

References

Kentucky railroads National Register of Historic Places in Anderson County, Kentucky National Register of Historic Places in Woodford County, Kentucky Railway lines opened in 1889 1889 establishments in Kentucky Transportation in Woodford County, Kentucky Transportation in Anderson County, Kentucky Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky {{AndersonCountyKY-NRHP-stub