A commissioned portrait of General Marquis de Lafayette, with the Keene house represented in the background in the appropriate time period, hung in the bedroom where the General slept at the newly renovated Keene Mansion at Keeneland pictured in Lexington., on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Keene Place is the completely renovated Keene Mansion on the Keeneland property. Built in the late 1700s, it is the only place in Fayette County ever visited (in 1805) by General Marquis de Lafayette, Revolutionary War Hero, friend to George Washington, namesake of Fayette county. Photo by David Stephenson | Staff
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