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The Fayette County Courthouse is located at 200 East Main Street, Lexington, KY 40507; phone: 859-258-3000.
In 1974 Fayette County and the City of Lexington merged their governments forming a consolidated city-county, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County government. The county was one of the original three counties formed in 1780 when Kentucky County (Virginia) was divided into Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln counties.
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