Kentucky's Frontier Highway [electronic resource] : Historical Landscapes along the Maysville Road /
Raitz, Karl B.
O'Malley, Nancy.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
2012.
Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep grades and dense forests of the Cumberland Gap rendered the Wilderness Road impassable to wagons, and the northern route extending from southeastern Pennsylvania became the first main thoroughfare to the rugged West, winding along the Ohio River and linking Maysville to Lexington in the heart of th
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Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep grades and dense forests of the Cumberland Gap rendered the Wilderness Road impassable to wagons, and the northern route extending from southeastern Pennsylvania became the first main thoroughfare to the rugged West, winding along the Ohio River and linking Maysville to Lexington in the heart of th
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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Frontier and pioneer life
Roads
Trails
Landscapes
Historic sites