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217 21 The Eden Shale Hills Mile 12.1 At the junction of U.S. 68 and the SR 36 connector to Carlisle, the old Maysville Road turned nearly 90 degrees to the left, or northeast, to follow the Brushy Creek valley. The creek flows south toward Hinkston Creek, the trunk stream in this section, so the road was heading up gradient into the heart of the Eden Shale Hills. A small tributary of Brushy Creek runs through this intersection, necessitating two bridges or culverts, one under U.S. 68 and the other under SR 36. Before 1948 the road continued about two hundred feet beyond this intersection and then turned northeast. The old track is still visible crossing the hill to the right and descending a steep grade to the Brushy Creek floodplain before reconnecting with the present alignment. Rock fences lined both sides of this old road segment until the late 1940s. Mile 12.4 The modern U.S. 68 follows the historic road’s track very closely through this section, clinging to the low side hill above Brushy Creek’s floodplain. The road crosses several small tributaries, such as Wilbur Run, necessitating culverts at each crossing. SR 32 and 36 follow Wilbur Run upstream to the village of Headquarters , three miles to the west. Positioned parallel to U.S. 68, an old road called Buffalo Trace Road runs from near Headquarters northeast to Barterville. Vandals have stolen the official road signs, but some property owners include the Buffalo Trace address on their roadside mailboxes. Mile 12.6 Old Carlisle Road heads off to the right just beyond the Rock Haven Auction House. The road is just discernible as an entrenched depression heading up the creek bank to higher ground. Mile 13.1 SR 32 to Carlisle intersects the Maysville Road here. Ready Money Jack, a colorful character during the early historic settlement era, once lived in the vicinity. John Hedges said Ready Money Jack was from Pennsylvania’s Monongahela country, where Indian encounters were common, and thus he was not afraid of Indian attack. Jack operated “a kind of tavern” at this location. Joseph Luckey claimed Ready Money Jack was a freed slave. Luckey explained his nickname as “must have the ready money,” implying that he preferred monetary transactions to those involving barter, trade, or credit. Holladay’s Inn stood in this area in 1827.1 Traffic along this section of U.S. 68 averaged about 4,200 vehicles per day in 2008, or only 59 percent of the 7,100 vehicles per day carried by the highway segment 218  The Maysville Road: A Landscape Biography only four miles to the south near the Nicholas County–Bourbon County boundary. The Nicholas County seat, Carlisle, lies just three and one-half miles east of the SR 36–U.S. 68 intersection. Traffic on SR 36 to Carlisle is typically about 3,900 vehicles per day, or nearly equal to the traffic load on U.S. 68, which suggests that the local two-way, seat-to-seat traffic from Carlisle to Paris and Lexington is nearly as great as the long-distance flow from Paris to Maysville.2 Mile 13.6 The road follows Brushy Creek upstream here, passing a rare nineteenth -century stone barn on the right. The surrounding hills are capped with Kope formation rocks, which in vertical profile are roughly 80 percent soft shales interbedded with limestone.3 The shale readily dissolves when exposed to precipitation— easily seen in road cuts—and it slumps and slides with alacrity, soon filling the roadside ditches with mud that highway crews must periodically load onto trucks and haul away. One enters the heart of the Eden Shale Hills here, and much of the land from here to near Mayslick is steeply sloped; there is only a thin veneer of soil that if farmed is best left in grass pasture, as one sees here on all sides. Mile 13.7 The state historic marker number 1230 here suggests that a restored log cabin reputed to be Daniel Boone’s last home in Kentucky stands on the hillside to the right. Boone and his family lived in the vicinity until they moved to Missouri, then in the Louisiana Territory, in 1799. The log building originally stood near the road next to a small stream that periodically flooded. To preserve the structure, Dr. Eslie Asbury, the owner of Forest Retreat, ahead on the left, moved it to its current location. Mile 13...

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