Kentucky's frontier highway [electronic resource] : historical landscapes along the Maysville Road / Karl Raitz and Nancy O'Malley.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2012] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (ix, 411 pages :) illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9780813136660
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky -- Maysville Region
- Roads -- Kentucky -- Maysville Region -- History
- Trails -- Kentucky -- Maysville Region -- History
- Landscapes -- Kentucky -- Maysville Region
- Historic sites -- Kentucky -- Maysville Region
- Maysville Region (Ky.) -- History
- Maysville Region (Ky.) -- Description and travel
- Maysville Region (Ky.) -- History, Local
- 976.9/323 23
- F459.M47 R35 2012
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-387) and index.
Part I. Introduction -- Reading America's Roads -- Traveling the Road -- Part II. Overland Roads and the Epic of Kentucky's Settlement -- Coming to Kentucky -- Regional Context -- Road Evolution -- Indian Paths and Buffalo Traces -- Pioneer Road -- Turnpike Road -- State and Federal Highway -- From Turnpike to Parkway -- Part III. The Maysville Road : A Landscape Biography -- The Road as a Corridor of Complexity -- Lexington -- The Original Limestone Trace : A Side Trip on Bryan Station Road -- The City-to-Country Transition -- Gentleman Farms and the Inner Bluegrass Landscape -- Siting Paris -- Side Trip : High Street from the Bourbon County Courthouse South to the Juncture of High and Main Streets -- Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Paris toward Blue Licks -- Millersburg -- The Eden Shale Hills -- Blue Licks -- Commemoration, Heritage, and a Battlefield Park -- Blue Licks toward Maysville -- Fairview and Ewing -- Fairview toward Mason County -- The Outer Bluegrass -- Mayslick : "The Asparagus Bed of Mason County" -- Old Washington -- Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and Hemp Production -- Intersections and Commercial Roadside Development -- Maysville -- Living with the River -- East Maysville -- Part IV. Reflecting on Roads and American Culture -- The Changing Landscape of Mobility.
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