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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Local history |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karl Raitz; Nancy O'Malley |
ISBN: | 9780813136660 0813136660 9780813140698 0813140692 |
OCLC Number: | 845246734 |
Description: | 1 online resource (424 pages) |
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. |
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- Maysville Region (Ky.) -- History, Local.
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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