Monday, May 10, 2021 (continued)
Maysville was originally named Limestone, at a landing place where settlers could follow a trail south to Lexington. Frontiersman Simon Kenton built a blockhouse here in 1784, and greeted new settlers to escort them the three miles to his settlement of Kenton Station. By 1786, Daniel Boone established a trading post and tavern in Limestone, and is considered one of the founders of Maysville with Simon Kenton.
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| Maysville mural (2020, by Stephanie Martinez) |
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Harvesting Burley Tobacco (1998, by Robert Dafford) is
a mural on the floodwall at the foot of Sutton Street |
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| The Lee House (c 1798 as an inn, plus additions) |
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A crowded Progne subis/
Purple Martin House apartment house |
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The Purple Martin House matches
the Lee House annex |
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| Washington Opera House (1898, in Beaux-Arts style) |
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Pioneer Graveyard with graves of Jacob Boone
(cousin to Daniel Boone) and Peter Grant
(uncle of President Ulysses S Grant) |
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| Former Maysville Jail (1884, in Second Empire style) |
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| Mason County Justice Building (2000) |
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Phillip's Folly (1825-1831) was thought to be a
stop on the Underground Railroad |
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Vintage Pepsi vending machine and
rotating barber pole |
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Mason County Courthouse (1845 as City Hall,
became the courthouse in 1848) |
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First Presbyterian Church (1890,
in Gothic Revival style) |
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| Aesculus x carnea/Red Horse Chestnut Blossom (KSS) |
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| Mechanics Row (c 1840, by John Armstrong in Federal style) |
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| Cox Building (1887, as the Masonic Temple in Queen Ann style) |
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| Cox Row (1888, by William H Cox in Queen Ann style) |
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Russell Theater (1929, in Spanish style)
hosted the premier of the 1953 movie
The Stars are Singing with Rosemary Clooney;
Rosemary Clooney was born and raised
in Maysville until the age of 15 |
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George Cox-Russell House (1888,
in Richardsonian Romanesque style) |
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Statue (2019, by Nicholas Fairplay)
of Maysville founder Simon Kenton,
with his namesake bridge to the right |
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| Lewis & Clark Historical Marker Side A |
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| Lewis & Clark Historical Marker Side B |
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Floodwall murals (2007, by Herb Roe, Brett Chigoy, and
Robert Dafford) featuring hometown girl Rosemary Clooney |
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Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge
(1931, by Modjeski and Masters) |
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| Limestone Landing view of the Ohio River |
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The New French Quarter Inn sports a
quilt square, similar to ones we have seen
on barns along the Ohio River Valley
and on buildings throughout Maysville |
Donna Sue Groves of Adams County, Ohio, has been credited for the initial inspiration for the
Clothesline of Quilts Trail theme. It has since spread as a proud display of local culture, and as a means to lure tourists away from interstate highways onto the backcountry roads. In Ohio's Monroe County, the artist Scott Hagan paints quilt patterns directly on barns. He is the same artist who painted the Ohio Bicentennial signs on barns throughout the state.
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We crossed the narrow Simon Kenton
Memorial Bridge over to Ohio |
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A Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn, part of the 1891-1992 barn
advertisement campaign for a WV chewing tobacco company |
Next: Cincinnati.
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