- 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
Siting Paris
Siting Paris
- Chapter:
- (p.171) 16 Siting Paris
- Source:
- Kentucky's Frontier Highway
- Author(s):
Karl Raitz
Nancy O’Malley
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
North of Houston Creek the road enters Paris, county seat of Bourbon County and the third largest urban place on the road (pop. 8,553 in 2010). This chapter provides an interpretation of this transitional landscape. Two centuries ago basic geographical decisions as to farm and town location were couched in straightforward pragmatics. Farmsteads required a year-round fresh water supply, standing timber for fuel, fencing, and construction materials, and open expanses of fertile land. Prime town sites combined access to water, fuel and construction wood, overland roads, and streams that, if not navigable, had flow sufficient to power a grist or saw mill. Paris was sited between Houston and Stoner Creeks and the Maysville Road became Main Street. Merchants established retail stores along Main Street, and burley tobacco farmers marketed their crops at rail-side warehouses.
Keywords: Main Street, Retail, Tobacco auction, Courthouse, Architecture
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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