Kentucky's Frontier Highway : Historical Landscapes along the Maysville Road /
This book is a history of the Maysville Road, a route that served as a theatre of local settlement, an engine of economic development, a symbol of the national political process, and an essential part of the Underground Railroad. The authors chart its transformation from an ancient footpath used by...
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Reading America's Roads ; Traveling the Road
- 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
- 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
- Reflecting on Roads and American Culture. The Changing Landscape of Mobility.
