Kentucky's Frontier Highway : Historical Landscapes along the Maysville Road

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List of Maps and Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction
Reading America's Roads	p. 3
Traveling the Road	p. 17
Overland Roads and the Epic of Kentucky's Settlement
Coming to Kentucky	p. 35
Regional Context	p. 43
Road Evolution	p. 47
Indian Paths and Buffalo Traces	p. 51
Pioneer Road	p. 55
Turnpike Road	p. 61
State and Federal Highway	p. 77
From Turnpike to Parkway	p. 87
The Maysville Road: A Landscape Biography
The Road as a Corridor of Complexity	p. 93
Lexington	p. 97
The Original Limestone Trace-A Side Trip on Bryan Station Road	p. 119
The City-to-Country Transition	p. 133
Gentleman Farms and the Inner Bluegrass Landscape	p. 139
Siting Paris	p. 171
Side Trip: High Street from the Bourbon County Courthouse South to the Juncture of High and Main Streets	p. 185
Nineteenth-Century Paris	p. 187
Paris toward Blue Licks	p. 191
Millersburg	p. 203
The Eden Shale Hills	p. 217
Blue Licks	p. 227
Commemoration, Heritage, and a Battlefield Park	p. 235
Blue Licks toward Maysville	p. 239
Fairview and Ewing	p. 243
Fairview toward Mason County	p. 251
The Outer Bluegrass	p. 255
Mayslick-"The Asparagus Bed of Mason County"	p. 261
Old Washington	p. 277
Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and Hemp Production	p. 295
Intersections and Commercial Roadside Development	p. 301
Maysville	p. 305
Living with the River	p. 325
East Maysville	p. 329
Reflecting on Roads and American Culture
The Changing Landscape of Mobility	p. 335
Acknowledgments	p. 341
Notes	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 371
Index	p. 389
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