- 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
Mayslick—“The Asparagus Bed of Mason County”
Mayslick—“The Asparagus Bed of Mason County”
- Chapter:
- (p.261) 28 Mayslick—“The Asparagus Bed of Mason County”
- Source:
- Kentucky's Frontier Highway
- Author(s):
Karl Raitz
Nancy O’Malley
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Early settlers from New Jersey founded the roadside village of Mayslick at a salt spring in the 1780s. Daniel Drake, a well-known medical practitioner, grew up here. The surrounding countryside is prime farmland with beef and dairy cattle and corn, soybeans, and tobacco the primary crops. In 1910, the first consolidated school in the state opened on the north side of Mayslick, and in 1921, a Rosenwald School for African-American students opened on the east side of town.
Keywords: Salt spring, New Jersey, Daniel Drake, Slaves, Consolidated school, Rosenwald School, Bypass
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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
