Kentucky's frontier highway : historical landscapes along the Maysville Road
- Author/Creator:
- Raitz, Karl B.
- Publication/Creation:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2012]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Kentucky's frontier highway : historical landscapes along the Maysville Road / Karl Raitz and Nancy O'Malley
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- O'Malley, Nancy
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Historic sites--Kentucky--Maysville Region
Landscapes--Kentucky--Maysville Region
Trails--Kentucky--Maysville Region--History
Roads--Kentucky--Maysville Region--History
Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky--Maysville Region
Maysville Region (Ky.)--History, Local
Maysville Region (Ky.)--Description and travel
Maysville Region (Ky.)--History
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- 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.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- ix, 411 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990032132270302486
- ISBN:
- 0813136644 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780813136646 (hardcover : acid-free paper) - OCLC Number:
- 788282202
- Barcode:
- 010002605700
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