The WPA Guide to Kentucky.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (608 pages)
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF MAPS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- PREFACE -- GENERAL INFORMATION -- CALENDAR OF EVENTS -- Part I. Kentucky: The General Background -- KENTUCKIANS -- NATURAL SETTING -- Animal Life -- Plant Life -- Geology and Paleontology -- ARCHEOLOGY AND INDIANS -- HISTORY -- AGRICULTURE -- TRANSPORTATION -- MANUFACTURING AND MINING -- LABOR -- THE NEGRO -- RELIGION -- EDUCATION -- FOLKLORE AND FOLK MUSIC -- KENTUCKY THOROUGHBREDS -- PRESS AND RADIO -- Radio -- THE ARTS -- The Theater -- Painting and Sculpture -- Literature -- Architecture -- Part II. Cities and Towns -- ASHLAND -- POINTS OF INTEREST -- COVINGTON -- POINTS OF INTEREST -- POINTS OF INTEREST IN ENVIRONS -- FRANKFORT -- POINTS OF INTEREST -- POINTS OF INTEREST IN ENVIRONS -- HARRODSBURG -- POINTS OF INTEREST -- POINTS OF INTEREST IN ENVIRONS -- LOUISVILLE -- POINTS OF INTEREST -- TOUR 1 -- POINTS OF INTEREST IN ENVIRONS -- LEXINGTON -- POINTS OF INTEREST -- HORSE FARM TOUR 1 -- HORSE FARM TOUR 2 -- PADUCAH -- POINTS OF INTEREST -- POINTS OF INTEREST IN ENVIRONS -- Part III. Highways and Byways -- TOUR 1 (Portsmouth, Ohio)-South Portsmouth-Ashland-Catlettsburg-Paintsville-Prestonsburg-Pikeville-(Norton, Va.). [US 23] -- 2 Winchester-Stanton-Jackson-Hazard-Junction with US 119. [State IS] -- 3 (Cincinnati, Ohio)-Newport-Cynthiana-Paris-Lexington-Nicholasville-Lancaster-Somerset-(Chattanooga, Tenn.). [US 27] -- Section a. Ohio Line to Lexington -- Section b. Lexington to Tennessee Line -- 4 (Cincinnati, Ohio)-Covington-Georgetown-Lexington-Richmond-Corbin-Williamsburg-(Jellico, Tenn.).[US 25 and US 25W] -- Section a. Ohio Line to Lexington -- Section b. Lexington to Tennessee Line -- 4A Junction with US 25-Pineville-Middlesboro-Cumberland. 4B Corbin-Cumberland Falls State Park-Parker's Lake. [State 90] -- 5 Warsaw-Frankfort-Lawrenceburg-Harrodsburg-Danville-Jamestown-Albany-(Chattanooga, Tenn.). [State 35] -- 6 (Indianapolis, Ind.)-Louisville-Bardstown-Hodgenville-Glasgow-Scottsville-(Nashville, Tenn.). [US 31E] -- 7 (New Albany, Ind.)-Louisville-Elizabethtown-Munfordville-Horse Cave-Bowling Green-Franklin-(Nashville, Tenn.).[US 31W] -- 7A Cave City-Mammoth Cave National Park-MammothCave. [State 70 -- ROUTE 1 -- ROUTE 2 -- ROUTE 3 -- ROUTE 4 -- ROUTE 5 -- ROUTE 6 -- 8 (Evansville, Ind.)-Henderson-Madisonville-Hopkinsville-Guthrie-(Nashville, Tenn.). [US 41 and US 41E] -- 9 (Metropolis, 111.)-Paducah-Mayfield-Fulton-(Martin, Tenn.). [US 45] -- 10 (Cairo, 111.)-Wickliffe-Bardwell-Clinton-Fulton-(Memphis, Tenn.). [US 51] -- 11 South Portsmouth-Vanceburg-Maysville-Alexandria.[State 10] -- 12 (Cincinnati, Ohio)-Covington-Warsaw-Carrollton-Louisville. [US 42] -- 12A Junction with US 42-Butler Memorial State Park-Owenton-Junction with State 40. [US 227] -- 13 Willow-Falmouth-Owenton-New Castle-Junction withUS 60. [State 22] -- TOUR 14 (Aberdeen, Ohio)-Maysville-Georgetown-Versailles-Bardstown-Elizabethtown-Central City-Paducah. [US 62] -- Section a. Ohio Line to Elizabethtown -- Section b. Elizabethtown to Paducah -- 15 (Aberdeen, Ohio)-Maysville-Lexington-Harrodsburg-Bardstown-Hodgenville-Cave City-Bowling Green-Paducah.[US 68] -- Section a. Ohio Line to Lexington -- Section b. Lexington to Bowling Green -- Section c. Bowling Green to Paducah -- 16 (Huntington, W. Va.)-Ashland-Owingsville-Mount Sterling-Winchester-Lexington-Versailles-Frankfort-Louisville-Henderson-Paducah-Wickliffe-(Charleston, Mo.). [US 60] -- Section a. West Virginia Line to Lexington -- Section b. Lexington to Louisville -- Section c. Louisville to Missouri Line. 17 Warfield-Paintsville-Mount Sterling-Georgetown- Junction with US 60. [State 40] -- 17A Paris-Boonesboro-Richmond. [US 227] -- 18 Junction with US 23-Hindman-Somerset-Columbia-Glasgow-Junction with US 31W-68. [State 80] -- 19 (Williamson, W. Va.)-Pikeville-Jenkins-Junction withUS 25E. [US 119] -- 20 Burnside-Monticello-Albany-Burkesville-Glasgow. [State 90] -- Part IV. Appendices -- CHRONOLOGY -- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.