The neighborhood has a mixture of postwar and recent single family home subdivisions, as well as apartment homes. The business consists of light industrial, service, wholesale and retail. Lexington's first shopping center, Eastland, is located adjacent to Liberty Heights.
History
Most of Liberty Heights was outside the Lexington city limits until the merger of the city and Fayette County. Despite this, pockets of city coexisted with pockets of "county," sometimes causing confusion of jurisdiction for law enforcement, as there were formerly both Lexington and Fayette County police departments. When the Union Depot in downtown Lexington was demolished, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway continued passenger service on its George Washington streamliner through Lexington until the 1970s, utilizing a newly built Netherlands yard passenger station on Delaware Avenue. The former C & O passenger station building now houses a church.
Amenities
Public parks
*Johnson Heights Park has no direct street frontage and access is via bridge walk from 846 Johnsdale Road, back yards, holes in fences or a sidewalk from the North Maintenance building on Liberty Road. The park features acres of grass, hills, playground, picnic shelter, and baseball and basketball facilities.
*1950s era drive-in, the Park-ette, is located at the edge of the neighborhood on New Circle Road. Prior to that road being built as the bypass, the restaurant was reached via a gravel driveway from Liberty Road.
*Transit: two bus lines serve the neighborhood, Eastland and Hamburg.
Industry
Unicomp, which licensed the IBM keyboard technology from Lexmark, is located on Henry Clay Boulevard. Its water tower serves as a landmark for the neighborhood.
Clay-Ingels is housed in the former CSX Netherlands rail yard.
Retail is primarily located on the outer boundaries of Winchester and New Circle Roads. There are some retail locations on Delaware Avenue, Henry Clay Boulevard and Liberty Road. The Lexus dealership is located in the southeast part of the neighborhood.
J.M. Smucker operates the world's largest peanut butter plant, Jif, adjacent to Liberty Heights.
Minnesota-born Shirley Ardell Mason lived in obscurity as an artist for the remaining years of her life in the neighborhood, for after her death it was revealed she was the basis for "Sybil Isabel Dorsett" in the book and filmSybil.
