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341 Acknowledgments We wish to recognize the contributions of William Marshall, Terry Birdwhistell, and Gordon Hogg of the Margaret King Library Special Collections Department; Faith Harders of the College of Design Library; and Gwen Curtis of the Geological Sciences Library and Map Collection for their suggestions and access to important documents. We also convey our gratitude to the staff at the University of Kentucky W. T. Young Library Interlibrary Loan Department and the University Law Library for their contributions to the completion of this project. Richard Gilbreath, director of the Gyula Pauer Cartography and GIS Laboratory in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, and Jeff Levy contributed elegant cartographic work and employed contemporary geographic information system technology to help bridge the analog-digital gap. Thanks also to Thomas Owen, archivist for regional history at the University of Louisville’s Ekstrom Library and University Archives, and to Charles Castner and Amy Purcell, also of the Ekstrom Library and University Archives; Cathy Schenck and her staff at the Keeneland Association Library; Lynn David at the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center in Maysville; Neal O. Hammon of Shelbyville, Kentucky; Jo Frederick , Bettye Hitch, and Nancy Donavan of Ewing, Kentucky, who participated in a focus-group discussion on the geographical history of Ewing. Gerald Griffith, also of Ewing, not only contributed to the focus group but also provided several rare and unpublished documents relating to Ewing and its association with the L & N Railroad. James Pyles of Mason County guided us on a tour of his farmstead and the old road from Maysville to Blue Licks. Donald Thompson, owner of the John Grant Station property in Bourbon County, provided access to the station site and useful information on historic road alignments and related properties. We also wish to acknowledge the contributions of the staff at the State Historic Preservation Office in Frankfort and thank them for their assistance and access to their files. For their permission to publish images and photographs, we wish to acknowledge the following: the University of Louisville Ekstrom Library for their permission to reprint the hemp field photograph; the University Press of Kentucky for permission to reprint three Clay Lancaster drawings of Rose Hill House, photographs of Joyland, Elmendorf Farm’s Green Hills house and interurban waiting room, an engraving of the Phoenix Hotel, and segments of John Filson’s map of Kentucky; the Kentucky Historical Society for the use of the Blue Licks Hotel photograph from their Frank Dunn Collection; B. J. Gooch and the Transylvania Library Special Collections for 342  Acknowledgments permission to reproduce images from the J. Winston Coleman Jr. Photographic Collection ; and the Hopewell Museum in Paris, Kentucky, for access to their collection of historical photography. We wish to thank George Thompson, founder and director of the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, for his invaluable contributions to this volume. George brought his enthusiasm for research, writing, and photography of the American landscape to this project through his encouragement and gifted editorial oversight. Partial funding for this project has been provided by the Federal Highway Administration Transportation Enhancement Grants program as administered by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. ...

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