McConnell's Trace Neighborhood Association

Welcome to the Neighborhood!

Imagine two hundred thirty years ago in a wilderness land called "Kentucky", two brothers, Francis and William McConnell, made their way along Elkhorn Creek's middle fork called Town Branch Creek. It was there amid the bur oak trees that the McConnell brothers started a settlement. That settlement is known today as Lexington, Kentucky.

Two hundred years later, February 2001, harsh winds blew and chilly temperatures prevailed on the unencumbered land on Fayette County's North West side as builders began the first 35 new homes. Those first home buyers, no doubt, possessed a pioneering spirit as well! Now McConnell's Trace settlers will enjoy, "a natural space where a community can take root and grow; for the city of Lexington, a potential model for future development---a suburb that is not isolated by traffic-clogged roads, but connected to the city by greenway trails."* The appeal of a neighborhood surrounded by open, green space, yet still offering a straight shot downtown and a simple crossing of Leestown Rd. to get a child to soccer practice, or to get a pet to the "dog park" is what drew many of us to make McConnell's Trace our home. More...