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Warf1eld—Paintsville·—Mount Sterling—Georgetown—junction with 4 3
US 60; 185.3 m. State 40. P
Hard-surfaced roadbed except for graveled section between Warield and Paints- ~ Sl
‘ lllffctypes of accommodations in larger towns.
State 40 winds through a mountain area that was isolated until r t.
shortly after the World War, when this highway was built. Conse-
quently the mountaineers living in this region have for the most part
retained their distinctive speech, manners, customs, and modes of living U
(see Tours 1, 18 and 19). jagged mountains, pine groves on inac- F
cessible pinnacles, laurel-grown cliffs with rhododendron in profusion
on the upper sandstone ridges, log cabins, and tales of "hants" char-
acterize this country. The topography changes gradually from rnoun- d
tainous terrain to plains as the highway crosses the Knobs belt and — s
enters the outer rim of the Bluegrass.
WARFIELD, 0 m. (662 alt., 120 pop.), on the western bank of the
Tug Fork of Big Sandy River, opposite Kermit, West Virginia, was (
established shortly after the War of 1812 when George R. C. Floyd V
and associates acquired title to the Ben Say Grant, established the (
town, drilled a salt well, and started a salt works. They later opened
up coal mines, and shipped the product by water. Floyd was a brother t
of john B. Floyd, Governor of Virginia (1830-32). (
INEZ, 10.1 m. (600 alt., 500 pop.), is one of the few unincorporated (
county seats in Kentucky; its former act of corporation was dissolved {
in order that the State Highway Commission might pave State 40 I
through the town, construction that the town could not afford. When _ I
a post office was established here, the town was to have been called h  
Eden, but it was found that there was already a post office in the State ‘ ‘
by that name. The postmaster at Louisa, then named the post 0l:llC€ · 1
for his daughter, Inez Frank. The first settler was james Ward, a ·  
veteran of the Revolutionary War and a companion of Daniel Boone ‘
on many of his hunting expeditions and in Indian affrays. Ward I  
selected the site for his camp because of the proximity of several salt j
licks. This region is the locale of Peter Clay’s Big Sandy Poems, pub- i
lished in 1890. K
Left from Inez on a trail to a small NATURAL BRIDGE, 1.5 m., in a setting of
sylvan beauty. ,