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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 121 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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Chapters: Cityscape of Louisville, Kentucky, the Highlands, Louisville - Jefferson County, Ky-in Metropolitan Statistical Area, Louisville-elizabethtown-scottsburg, Ky-in Combined Statistical Area, Shippingport, Kentucky, West Main District, Louisville - Jefferson County, Kentucky. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Louisville, Kentucky is home to numerous structures that are noteworthy due to their architectural characteristics or historic associations, the most noteworthy being the Old Louisville neighborhood, the third largest historic preservation district in the United States. The city also boasts the postmodern Humana Building and an expanding Waterfront Park which has served to remove the former industrial appearance of the riverfront. The downtown business district of Louisville is located immediately south of the Ohio River, and southeast of the Falls of the Ohio. The airport is located approximately 6.5 miles (10 km) south of the downtown area, and easily connected to most parts of the city by three Interstate Highways, maximizing its accessibility. The largest industrial sections of town are located to the south and west of the airport, while most of the residential areas of the city are located to the southwest, south and east of downtown. Another major business district is located in the more suburban area east of the city on Hurstbourne Parkway. This area is considered Louisville's key edge city a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area. Louisville also boasts a large number of parks, with 122 parks covering more than 14,000 acres (57 km²). An aerial view of the Watterson Expressway in St MatthewsAt present, there are only three road bridges crossing the Ohio River to In...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12712109 ... Read more

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Chapters: Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky Horse Park, Gainesway Farm, Mcconnell Springs. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The urban development patterns of Lexington, Kentucky, confined within an urban growth boundary that protects its famed horse farms, include greenbelts and expanses of land between it and the surrounding towns. This has been done to preserve the region's horse farms and the unique Bluegrass landscape, which bring millions of dollars to the city through the horse industry and tourism. Urban growth is also tightly restricted in the adjacent counties, with the exception of Jessamine County, with development only allowed inside existing city limits. In order to prevent rural subdivisions and large homes on expansive lots from consuming the Bluegrass landscape, Fayette and all surrounding counties have minimum lot size requirements, which range from 10 acres (40,000 m) in Jessamine to fifty in Fayette. Because the farmland in the southern part of the county consisted more of tobacco farms than pastures for raising horses and thus was considered "replaceable," most of Lexington's growth has been historically concentrated south of the downtown area. As a result, more than seventy percent of today's population lives south of US 60. Until the mid-1990s, most of the growth occurred in the southwest between US 68 (Harrodsburg Road) and KY 1974 (Tates Creek Road). Today, new development continues to the Madison and Clark County lines in a southeasterly direction along the Interstate 75 and US 60 (Winchester Road) corridors. Of the surrounding counties, the greatest growth is occurring in the counties through which Interstate 75 and US 27 pass, such as Scott County, Madison County and Jessamine County. Clark County and Woodfor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7519905 ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Historical Geography, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This essay will examine, through a Kentucky case study, the process whereby states, county-level localities, and individuals undertook for themselves the responsibility for internal improvements, especially the construction of comprehensive road networks in the nineteenth century. Before the Kentucky legislature authorized state-funded road construction in the twentieth century, the state's best roads were a few toll turnpikes. Following other eastern states, Kentucky approved turnpike construction charters and subscribed to turnpike stock to underwrite construction. State statutes, based upon directives from trained engineers hired by the Board of Internal Improvement, required that turnpike construction follow complex procedures. A change in the state constitution in 1850 forced the state to withdraw from turnpike road investment and road construction oversight and finance devolved to counties and private investors. Local county road networks were largely the product of neighborhood turnpike companies chartered by the state. Primary documents record the local road-building process for a five-mile turnpike in a Bourbon County. With little direction or assistance from state engineers, the neighborhood residents, led by farmer John W. Jones, surveyed a route, arranged for right-of-way access through adjacent farms, hired Irish turnpike construction crews, built a tollhouse, and collected tolls. Formal state law and engineering directives became attenuated as amateur turnpike builders constructed a simplified version of the state's ideal road. ... Read more

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Geography of Kentucky
The Georaphy of Kentucky was a College Text some fifty years ago. I lost mine just prior to Finals my Freshman year, I failed the course, I never had the opertunity to retake it althought I was a Geography Major. Having found the Text I am sure I will pass any exam. I purchased this from a dealer. My experiance was supurb. My sordid passed as been sanitised.

45 years old now
This is review of 2nd edition.

Where there isn't a temporal element it's still accurate, so the length of the state if still 450 miles from Pike to Fulton Counties. Fulton County has the lowest point at 237 feet, ranging up to Black Mountain at 4150 feet. Kentucky was once called Fincastle County of Virginia. Acreage rain is 45.5 ", and average temperature is 76 in July and 36 in January with 180-190 days of growing season.

What are most interesting are changes, such as the attitude about coal, and the sense ofsurprise that "Negroes" could go University of Kentucky.Lake Barkley must have just been being built as the book was being built.In 1960 the population was 3 million and now over 4.The density was 76 people per square mile and now, 100.Now the state is 52% urban, and number of farms went from 17 million to 14 million, but acreage increased form 112 acres to 160 acres.
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 2010. The length of the article is 9125 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Historical first-generation frontier roads in America's trans-Appalachian West often evolved from buffalo and Indian trails into pioneer routeways such as Daniel Boone's Trace and, eventually, into twentieth-century hard-surface highways. Period cartographers found these routes difficult to document accurately, and present-day scholars often depict them only on small-scale maps, which simply illustrate connections between origin and destination points. Accurately mapping Kentucky's first-generation roads at large scale requires detailed site and contextual topographic information over long distances, but historical maps, diaries, surveyors' reports, and other period documents often lack sufficient detail for route-related sites to support mapping. Use of GIS software enables positioning historical routes onto U.S. Geological Survey contour- and hill-shaded base maps by mapping verifiable locations and linking them through interpretation of best-choice routes that consider frontier migrants' transportation priorities, such as direction, distance, gradient, and land-surface character. Keywords: GIS, historical maps, historical roads, mapping, topographic surface.

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Title: Mapping Kentucky's frontier trails through Geographical information and cartographic applications.(Report)
Author: Karl B. Raitz
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 100Issue: 3Page: 312(24)

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Alabama : Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
If you're interested in this sort of thing as I am this book could be of great value however the price is unreal. I have a CD that does much the same for the entire country at a third the price of one state however this book is MUCH more accurate and shows county boundaries that only occured for as little as three days. The CD is also easier to use. That said I'll likely ask for the book as one of those Christmas presents I wouldn't buy for myself. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 115 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 115 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 2009. The length of the article is 10443 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: --D. W. Meinig, 1978

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Title: A methodological framework for interpreting ordinary landscapes: Lexington, Kentucky's Courthouse Square.(Report)
Author: Richard H. Schein
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2009
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 99Issue: 3Page: 377(26)

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