The Road Materials of Kentucky
Author : Charles Henry Richardson
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Road materials
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Author : Charles Henry Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Road materials
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Author : Ken Skorseth
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Gravel roads
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The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Geology
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Author : Tennessee Valley Authority
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Page : 908 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Dams
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Author : Carolyn Murray-Wooley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813147794
Gray rock fences built of ancient limestone are hallmarks of Kentucky's Bluegrass landscape. Why did Kentucky farmers turn to rock as fence-building material when most had earlier used hardwood rails? Who were the masons responsible for Kentucky's lovely rock fences and what are the different rock forms used in this region? In this generously illustrated book, Carolyn Murray-Wooley and Karl Raitz address those questions and explore the background of Kentucky's rock fences, the talent and skill of the fence masons, and the Irish and Scottish models they followed in their work. They also correct inaccurate popular perceptions about the fences and use census data and archival documents to identify the fence masons and where they worked. As the book reveals, the earliest settlers in Kentucky built dry-laid fences around eighteenth-century farmsteads, cemeteries, and mills. Fence building increased dramatically during the nineteenth century so that by the 1880s rock fences lined most roads, bounded pastures and farmyards throughout the Bluegrass. Farmers also built or commissioned rock fences in New England, the Nashville Basin, and the Texas hill country, but the Bluegrass may have had the most extensive collection of quarried rock fences in North America. This is the first book-length study on any American fence type. Filled with detailed fence descriptions, an extensive list of masons' names, drawings, photographs, and a helpful glossary, it will appeal to folklorists, historians, geographers, architects, landscape architects, and masons, as well as general readers intrigued by Kentucky's rock fences.
Author : Kentucky Geological Survey
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Geology
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Author : Karl Raitz
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813136644
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.
Author : American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Task Force for Roadside Safety
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Roads
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Author : Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kentucky
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Automobile travel
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During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series. This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. No library collection in Kentucky would be complete without a copy of Kentucky: A Guide To The Bluegrass State.