- Title Pages
- Maps and Illustrations
-
Part I Introduction -
1 Reading America's Roads -
2 Traveling the Road -
Part II Overland Roads and the Epic of Kentucky's Settlement -
3 Coming to Kentucky -
4 Regional Context -
5 Road Evolution -
6 Indian Paths and Buffalo Traces -
7 Pioneer Road -
8 Turnpike Road -
9 State and Federal Highway -
10 From Turnpike to Parkway -
Part III The Maysville Road: A Landscape Biography -
11 The Road as a Corridor of Complexity -
12 Lexington -
13 The Original Limestone Trace— A Side Trip on Bryan Station Road -
14 The City-to-Country Transition -
15 Gentleman Farms and the Inner Bluegrass Landscape -
16 Siting Paris -
17 Side Trip -
18 Nineteenth-Century Paris -
19 Paris toward Blue Licks -
20 Millersburg -
21 The Eden Shale Hills -
22 Blue Licks -
23 Commemoration, Heritage, and a Battlefield Park -
24 Blue Licks toward Maysville -
25 Fairview and Ewing -
26 Fairview toward Mason County -
27 The Outer Bluegrass -
28 Mayslick—“The Asparagus Bed of Mason County” -
29 Old Washington -
30 Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and Hemp Production -
31 Intersections and Commercial Roadside Development -
32 Maysville -
33 Living with the River -
34 East Maysville -
Part IV Reflecting on Roads and American Culture -
35 The Changing Landscape of Mobility - Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
From Turnpike to Parkway
From Turnpike to Parkway
- Chapter:
- (p.87) 10 From Turnpike to Parkway
- Source:
- Kentucky's Frontier Highway
- Author(s):
Karl Raitz
Nancy O’Malley
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
The most heavily travelled portion of the Maysville Road was the section that connected Lexington and Paris. By the 1820s, farms aligned the route and more than a dozen inns and taverns provided meals and overnight accommodations for carriage and stagecoach passengers and drovers. In 1827, state-appointed surveyors laid out a nearly straight road from Lexington to Paris. Road builders completed the realignment by the mid-1830s and the new alignment remained the primary route for more than 170 years. The road's historic turnpike configuration did not adapt well to motorized traffic which began in the 1920s. Engineers developed plans to rebuild the road and widen Paris Pike to four lanes in the late 1960s but protests and lawsuits led to development of revised construction plans that protracted the reconstruction process. Construction on a new four lane Paris Pike parkway began in 1997 and opened for traffic in 2003. The completed parkway has received numerous accolades and awards. [no longer true] As each segment is straightened, the traces established by Indians, buffalo, pioneers, and turnpikers, in turn, recede, eventually becoming lost landscapes.
Keywords: Paris Pike, Road design, Modernization, Lost landscapes
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- Title Pages
- Maps and Illustrations
-
Part I Introduction -
1 Reading America's Roads -
2 Traveling the Road -
Part II Overland Roads and the Epic of Kentucky's Settlement -
3 Coming to Kentucky -
4 Regional Context -
5 Road Evolution -
6 Indian Paths and Buffalo Traces -
7 Pioneer Road -
8 Turnpike Road -
9 State and Federal Highway -
10 From Turnpike to Parkway -
Part III The Maysville Road: A Landscape Biography -
11 The Road as a Corridor of Complexity -
12 Lexington -
13 The Original Limestone Trace— A Side Trip on Bryan Station Road -
14 The City-to-Country Transition -
15 Gentleman Farms and the Inner Bluegrass Landscape -
16 Siting Paris -
17 Side Trip -
18 Nineteenth-Century Paris -
19 Paris toward Blue Licks -
20 Millersburg -
21 The Eden Shale Hills -
22 Blue Licks -
23 Commemoration, Heritage, and a Battlefield Park -
24 Blue Licks toward Maysville -
25 Fairview and Ewing -
26 Fairview toward Mason County -
27 The Outer Bluegrass -
28 Mayslick—“The Asparagus Bed of Mason County” -
29 Old Washington -
30 Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and Hemp Production -
31 Intersections and Commercial Roadside Development -
32 Maysville -
33 Living with the River -
34 East Maysville -
Part IV Reflecting on Roads and American Culture -
35 The Changing Landscape of Mobility - Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index