Author: Ladislas Segoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Comprehensive Plan for Lexington and Its Environs
Author: Ladislas Segoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Kentucky's Frontier Highway
Author: Karl Raitz
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep grades and dense forests of the Cumberland Gap rendered the Wilderness Road impassable to wagons, and the northern route extending from southeastern Pennsylvania became the first main thoroughfare to the rugged West, winding along the Ohio River and linking Maysville to Lexington in the heart of the Bluegrass. Kentucky's Frontier Highway reveals the astounding history of the Maysville Road, a route that served as a theater of local settlement, an engine of economic development, a symbol of the national political process, and an essential part of the Underground Railroad. Authors Karl Raitz and Nancy O'Malley chart its transformation from an ancient footpath used by Native Americans and early settlers to a central highway, examining the effect that its development had on the evolution of transportation technology as well as the usage and abandonment of other thoroughfares, and illustrating how this historic road shaped the wider American landscape.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep grades and dense forests of the Cumberland Gap rendered the Wilderness Road impassable to wagons, and the northern route extending from southeastern Pennsylvania became the first main thoroughfare to the rugged West, winding along the Ohio River and linking Maysville to Lexington in the heart of the Bluegrass. Kentucky's Frontier Highway reveals the astounding history of the Maysville Road, a route that served as a theater of local settlement, an engine of economic development, a symbol of the national political process, and an essential part of the Underground Railroad. Authors Karl Raitz and Nancy O'Malley chart its transformation from an ancient footpath used by Native Americans and early settlers to a central highway, examining the effect that its development had on the evolution of transportation technology as well as the usage and abandonment of other thoroughfares, and illustrating how this historic road shaped the wider American landscape.
American Planning and Civic Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Architecture
Author: Léon Krier
Publisher: Papadakis Publisher
ISBN: 1901092038
Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.
Publisher: Papadakis Publisher
ISBN: 1901092038
Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.
Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: University of Kentucky. Bureau of Business Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Official Record
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
City Planning
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Official Record of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Comprehensive Planning and the Environment
Author: John S. Willson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description