Northern Kentucky’s Dixie Highway (Images of America)

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Northern Kentucky’s Dixie Highway is a slice of Americana pie. Known also as U.S. 25 and the Lexington-Covington Turnpike, the once-rural route connects the urban cores of Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport to Central Kentucky. At the start a buffalo trail and named within the early 1800s, the route turned into a paved national highway within the 1920s. The creation of the thoroughfare encouraged the growth of a couple of communities along its route that still thrive nowadays. Images of The us: Northern Kentucky’s Dixie Highway captures historic images of the people and places along the Dixie Highway beginning in Covington and heading south through Boone County. The pictures—some taken as early as the mid-1800s—depict time’s influence in addition to those things that remain the similar. The 200 images inside offer readers an opportunity to revisit the friends, familiar sites, and memorable times enjoyed along Northern Kentucky’s Dixie Highway.

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