Crawfish Bottom [electronic resource] : Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community /
Boyd, Douglas A.,1970-
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2011.
A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. ""Craw's"" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provide
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A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. ""Craw's"" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd's Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provide
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Reputation as history -- The "lower" part of the city -- Crawfish Bottom -- Contesting public memory -- The other side of the tracks -- The king of Craw -- Conclusion: Remembering Craw.
Description based on print version record.
Oral history
Community life