- 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
Pioneer Road
Pioneer Road
- Chapter:
- (p.55) 7 Pioneer Road
- Source:
- Kentucky's Frontier Highway
- Author(s):
Karl Raitz
Nancy O’Malley
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
The Maysville Road of the pioneer era had a poor road surface, streams lacked bridging, and roadside accommodations were elementary. Yet, a steady stream of travelers followed the road. Towns and rural settlements became markets for foodstuffs and manufactured goods imported from Atlantic Coast cities. Travel time for goods moving from Maysville to Lexington and back was six days if the road was in good condition. Kentucky's 1797 road law placed road building and maintenance responsibilities with the county courts, not the state. The law gave no directives for road engineering, or priorities to create a systematic road network. Rather, roads were conceived of as a local service to be built and maintained by local people.
Keywords: Road use, Road quality, Travel time, Road law
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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