Maysville, Kentucky Maysville, Kentucky Maysville, Kentucky, horizon showing the Mason County Courthouse, and the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge which spans the Ohio River.
Maysville, Kentucky, horizon showing the Mason County Courthouse, and the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge which spans the Ohio River.
Location of Maysville, Kentucky Location of Maysville, Kentucky Maysville is a home rule-class town/city in Mason County, Kentucky, United States and is the seat of Mason County. The populace was 9,011 at the 2010 census, making it the 40th-largest town/city in Kentucky by population.
Maysville is on the Ohio River, 66 miles (106 km) northeast of Lexington.
It is the principal town/city of the Maysville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Mason and Lewis counties.
Two bridges cross the Ohio from Maysville to Aberdeen, Ohio: the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge assembled in 1931 and the William H.
On the edge of the outer Bluegrass Region, Maysville is historically meaningful in Kentucky's settlement.
Later, Maysville became an meaningful port on the Ohio River for the northeastern part of the state.
It exported bourbon whiskey, hemp and tobacco, the latter two produced mainly by African American slaves before the Civil War. It was once a center of wrought iron manufacture, sending ironwork downriver to decorate the buildings of Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Other small manufacturers also positioned early in Maysville and manufacturing remains an meaningful part of the undivided economy. Under the leadership of Henry Means Walker, Maysville was home to one of the biggest tobacco auction warehouses in the world for most of the 20th century. Maysville was an meaningful stop on the Underground Railroad, as the no-charge state of Ohio was just athwart the river. abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the region in 1833 and watched a slave auction in front of the court home in Washington, the initial seat of the county and now a historic precinct of Maysville. She encompassed the scene in her influential novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, presented in 1852.
WFTM-AM and WFTM-FM are the major small-town airways broadcasts in Maysville.
1.3 Maysville Road 2.3 Maysville Murals Buffalo once forded the Ohio here, beating a broad path into the interior of Kentucky in search of salt licks.
The buffalo trace, also a well-used trail traveled for centuries by Native Americans, was a natural path into the bluegrass region, extending all the way to Lexington, Kentucky. Frontiersman Simon Kenton made the first settlement in the region in 1775 but temporarily abandoned that to fight in the battles of the American Revolution.
Returning in 1784, Kenton assembled a blockhouse at the site of Maysville and established Kenton's Station (frontier fort) at a site three miles (5 km) inland. Kenton met new pioneer at Limestone, as the landing place was called, and escorted them inland to his station.
In 1787 the little settlement was incorporated as Maysville, though the name Limestone persisted well into the 19th century. View of Maysville, 1821 In 1788, when Mason County was organized and Washington was titled its county seat, Maysville was still a rude compilation of warehouses and wharves, with several dwellings.
Maysville began to flourish. Zane's Trace, a road from Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), to the bank of the Ohio River opposite Maysville, was instead of in 1797 and stimulated ferry traffic athwart the river. By 1807 Maysville was one of two principal ports in Kentucky; it was still mostly a place through which goods and citizens passed, having only about sixty dwellings. In 1811 the first steamboat came down the Ohio from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, passing Maysville on its way to New Orleans. With the coming of the steamboat, Maysville's populace and region period rapidly. Maysville Road See also: Maysville Road veto Southwest from Maysville, the road followed the former buffalo trace and Native American trail to Lexington.
It was called both the Maysville Road and the Limestone Road.
In 1829 the Kentucky council authorized the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company to construct a undivided roadway along the route of the old Limestone Road.
Henry Clay, an influential Kentucky politician and proponent of the American System, argued for the Maysville Road and other infrastructure, noting it would be part of a longer road terminating in New Orleans, Louisiana, and proper for federal funding. The Maysville Road veto was one of Jackson's first acts in aligning the federal government with his principles of Jacksonian democracy. An attempt to override Jackson's veto failed, but the controversy over the Maysville Road veto continued for some time.
By the 1830s, Maysville had a populace of 3,000 and was the second-most meaningful commercial town/city in Kentucky after Louisville. Washington, the county seat, had dwindled in importance after a fire in 1825 and a series of deadly cholera epidemics. A proposal to move the county government from Washington to Maysville was bitterly fought but passed by a slender margin in 1848.
Maysville donated its town/city hall, instead of in 1846, to the county for a court home. Today, much of Washington is designated as a historic district, the Washington Historic District; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1850, the Maysville & Lexington Railroad began operation, but it floundered inside the decade.
Today, the Maysville & Lexington's former routes and rights-of-way are owned by CSX Transportation.
Those tolls were removed in 1945 to much fanfare - including celebrations from the small-town Rotary and Lions club, and a parade in downtown Maysville.
It joins Maysville, Kentucky and Aberdeen, Ohio.
The Simon Kenton Suspension Bridge opened to traffic at 10:30 AM on November 25, 1931, at a cost of $1.6 million. In 2002, a $5.8 million renovation job replaced the deck of the Ohio River crossing.
The Russell Theatre, positioned on Third Street in Maysville, was the site of the world premiere of Rosemary Clooney's first film, The Stars Are Singing, in 1953. The Russell Theatre is an atmospheric theatre, and featured a large rainbow that would light up before and after the showing of each movie.
Maysville Murals In the summer of 1998 a series of historical murals was begun on the downtown floodwall. Over the next ten years Robert Dafford and his team painted ten murals seeking the history of Maysville on various sections of the floodwall. 18th century Limestone Landing - The initial settlement of European-Americans on the future site of Maysville, then known as Limestone Landing.
1850s Sutton's Landing - The antebellum era Maysville riverfront, featuring iconic steam boats on the Ohio River.
Underground Railroad 1850s - The Underground Railroad route through the region before the American Civil War, with a view looking athwart the river to the John Rankin House in Ripley, Ohio.
20th century Maysville Riverfront - The closing evolution of the waterfront locale as steamboats gave way to trains and barge traffic.
Maysville is positioned on the Ohio River at the mouth of Limestone Creek.
It is situated in the narrow river plain and the steep hills rising from it, giving the town/city the prospect of an Italian hill town. The town/city now extends inland to the former town of Washington, which was took in by Maysville in 1990. The town/city has a total region of 22.25 square miles (57.6 km2), of which 19.91 square miles (51.6 km2) is territory and 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2), or 10.52%, is water. Maysville is at Ohio River mile marker 408.7, and is 100 miles (160 km) downriver from Huntington, West Virginia and 62 miles (100 km) upriver from Cincinnati, Ohio. Maysville lies on the border of the Humid subtropical and the Hot Summer Continental climate zones.
Maysville's average annual rain is 46.02", falling primarily as precipitation or snow.
Maysville's average annual temperature is 54.4 F, with the coolest lows averaging 22.2 F in January, and highs averaging 87 F in July. 68 in Maysville See also: Maysville (Amtrak station) Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Maysville.
Amtrak Train 51, the westbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Maysville at 11:36pm on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday with service to Cincinnati, Connersville, Indianapolis, Crawfordsville, Lafayette, Rensselaer, Dyer, and Chicago.
Amtrak Train 50, the eastbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Maysville at 4:36am on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday with service to South Portsmouth, Ashland, Huntington, Charleston, Montgomery, Thurmond, Prince, Hinton, Alderson, White Sulphur Springs, Clifton Forge, Staunton, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas, Alexandria, and Washington, D.C., before closing on to New York City.
Maysville Transit provides fixed-route and demand-ride bus service throughout town/city of Maysville.
The following highways serve Maysville: Route 62, which joins Downtown Maysville with Aberdeen, Ohio via the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge.
Route 68, which passes just west of Maysville and links Kentucky and Ohio via the William H.
US 62 and 68 also furnish Maysville with a direct route to Lexington and the Bluegrass Region of Central Kentucky.
Other highways serving Maysville are: Kentucky Route 8, which follows the Ohio River west of Maysville to the greater Cincinnati region Routes 9 and 10 run concurrently through the south edge of Maysville as the AA HIghway.
The AA Highway links the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati approximately 50 miles west of Maysville with Vanceburg, Ashland and Interstate 64 near Grayson to the southeast.
Kentucky Route 11, a north-south highway that approaches Maysville from the south from Flemngsburg and Mt.
The fact that highways numbered 8, 9, 10, and 11 serve Maysville makes the town/city one of the several suburbs located at the intersection of four consecutively numbered highways.
Jerry Lundergan, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party Maysville Community and Technical College Patrick's High School (Maysville, Kentucky) List of metros/cities and suburbs along the Ohio River Kentucky League of Cities.
"The Rosemary Clooney Palladium".
The old Maysville High School building (converted to apartements in 1999) is situated in the site of Kenton's 1784 blockhouse.
Zane's Trace, Ohio History Central.
Steamboats, Ohio History Central.
"Maysville's bridge to Ohio twice cause for celebration." "The Rosemary Clooney Palladium - The Greatest Female Singer of the 20th Century".
"Maysville Floodwall Mural Project".
"Rosemary Clooney Mural - Maysville, KY".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Enumeration 2000, Maysville city, Kentucky - Fact Sheet.
Enumeration 2000, Kentucky: 2000 - Population and Housing Unit Counts, p.
Source for Maysville and Huntington mile markers.
Maysville, Kentucky.
"Maysville, Kentucky: Americana on the Ohio River".
"Kentucky: 2000 - Population and Housing Unit Counts" (pdf).
"Maysville city, Kentucky - Fact Sheet".
"The Old Maysville Road".
City of Maysville Official Web Site The Ledger Independent, Maysville's newspaper.
WFTM, Maysville's airways broadcast.
Tours of Maysville and vicinity.
Historical Texts and Images of Maysville The Maysville Kentucky Blog.
Maysville Floodwall Mural Project Municipalities and communities of Mason County, Kentucky, United States 50 most crowded cities of Kentucky
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