LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - We are counting down to the grand opening of Gatton Park on the Town Branch.

The Town Branch waterway is the backbone of this new park and the city.

WKYT’s Darnell Crenshaw talked to Mandy Higgins, a Lexington historian who tells us the Commonwealth’s second-largest city would not exist as it is today without this water source.

When pioneers came to central Kentucky in 1775, their water source was the Blue Hole, which can be found in McConnell Springs. It leads into Town Branch, a life source at the time, for drinking, bathing, washing clothes, feeding cattle, just about everything.

“So Town Branch has always been sort of the lifeblood for Lexington, but also a nuisance or a nemesis in the way water can be,” Higgins said.

One challenge was the Town Branch flood

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