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133 14 The City-to-Country Transition Mile 1.5 North of Loudon Avenue, from Devonia north to Carlisle Street and beyond, 1920s single-family residential housing predominates. The next intersecting street on the left beyond Devonia is Fairlawn Avenue. By the mid-1930s North Broadway Avenue, one long block to the left and the present route of U.S. 68, ended ignominiously in a farm field, and Fairlawn served as its connector with North Limestone (and Paris Pike–U.S. 68). In 1937 the Kentucky Highway Department developed plans to extend North Broadway 1.2 miles north as a bypass of North Limestone. Broadway was subsequently extended to connect with North Limestone beyond the Louisville & Nashville Railroad overpass.1 Mile 1.9 North Limestone intersects New Circle Road here. Beyond the intersection , the road’s name changes to Old Paris Pike. In 1953 construction began on this eastside unlimited-access four-lane circumferential bypass, starting near Liberty Road to the south and extending north to North Broadway. The Parkette Drive-In restaurant near the Liberty Road intersection was built in 1951, preceding the new bypass, and other roadside businesses quickly appeared. At the North Broadway and New Circle Road intersection a box-style gas station still carries a sign on its front facade stating that the business has been in place “since 1954.” Across New Circle Road, the North Limestone–Old Paris Pike streetcar track moved from the road’s center to the left, or northwest, side and became the Kentucky Traction and Terminal Railroad, with interurban service to Paris. Though the KT & TR tracks and right-of-way have vanished, one can still detect its presence in selected places where houses postdating the track are set farther back from the road on the left side than on the right. Mile 2.2–2.3 The area from Northwood to Deepwood Drive includes a few remnants of Warrentown, a post–Civil War African American working-class neighborhood on the left and an early twentieth-century middle-class neighborhood on the right. Short segments of a pre–Civil War dry-laid stone turnpike fence are also visible on the right. Mile 2.7 Just beyond Winston Avenue, on the right, is a beautiful architectdesigned Arts and Crafts bungalow built in 1917 on a three-acre lot with a roadside cobblestone wall; a very small cobblestone waiting room for interurban passengers stands 134  The Maysville Road: A Landscape Biography out front, next to the street. Perhaps the largest collection of cobblestone houses in the country was built during the 1830s to 1870s in the Genesee River country of New York near Rochester. The rounded cobbles used in those houses, most of them three to four inches in diameter, were of glacial origin, as the cobbles used on this house and fence appear to be. Since continental glaciation did not extend into central Kentucky, these cobbles were probably imported from some source north of the Ohio River. Mile 3.0 A large “leg”-type freeway interchange just to the northwest, or left, gives access to a six-lane steel and concrete bridge that carries Interstates 64 and 75 over this section of Old Paris Pike. A leg-type freeway interchange resembles two horseshoes laid side by side and is employed if space limitations prohibit using the more common diamond or cloverleaf interchanges. The juxtaposition of North Broadway , a railroad track, and Old Paris Pike here required that highway engineers design a combined leg interchange and overpass to provide full access without disrupting any of the five routes that cross at this point. Because a leg interchange places highway off- and on-ramps side by side, this design has proven dangerous for travelers who are inattentive to the directional signs and attempt to enter the interstate via an exit ramp. About two miles to the south, I-64 splits from I-75 and heads east toward Virginia. Interstate 75 continues south toward Florida. In eastern Fayette County, I-64 carries about 37,600 vehicles per day. In southern Fayette County, more than 61,500 vehicles per day drive on I-75.2 This old section of the Maysville Road represents the 1920s transition from city to rural countryside. To provide services to city residents and to manage city growth, a new city charter in 1928 authorized the creation of a seven-member Fayette County Planning and Zoning Commission. The Board of Commissioners passed Lexington’s first zoning ordinance in 1930 and adopted a comprehensive...

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