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G souri, where their fourth child, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain),
ve was born.
EDMONTON, 231.2 m. (800 alt., 237 pop.), overlooking the Little
if Barren River, is an unincorporated community, but is the seat of Met-
1- calfe County. The town is named for Edmond Rogers, a soldier of
ne Virginia, who came to Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. He
ir acquired 20,000 acres of land and a large number of slaves, and laid out
st a town here.
se The Truce FISH HATCHERY (L), 246.8 m., is the only spring-fed
FS hatchery operated by the State.
ig GLASGOW, 249.9 nz. (780 alt., 5,042 pop.) ( see Tour 6), is at the
junction with US 31E (see T0ur 6) and State 90 (see Tour 20).
lb Between Glasgow and Merry Oaks the route continues through an
OY oil field that has not been fully developed.
he MERRY OAKS, 261.3 m. (67 pop.), is the locale of Cordia Greer
be Petrie’s Angeline, stories of the rural Kentuckian’s reaction to the city
life of Louisville.
Bt; A quarry (R) at 265.5 m. produces Bowling Green oolitic limestone.
At 274.6 m. is the junction with US 68 (see Tour 15) and US 31W
he (see Tour 7) 6.7 miles east of Bowling Green.
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Old (Williamson, W. Va.)-—Pikeville—]enkins—]unction with US 25E;
The Us 119.
3,;,% West Virginia Line to junction with US 25E, 165.9 m.
pj; Hard-surfaced roadbed throughout.
nd, Louisville & Nashville R.R. roughly parallels route between Lynch and Pineville.
1 as Accommodations chiefly in towns.
$1; US 119 crosses a rugged and long-isolated region twisting around
NU- high mountain shoulders, where each turn of the road reveals range after
de` range of dark green wooded slopes, beautiful in the spring with the [
snowy white, pink, and deep red of the rhododendron and wild azalea, .
ged . and where the narrow, winding valleys echo with the sound of the
waterfalls and rapids in the clear streams. At intervals along the high-
the way are lonely little log cabins perched on ridges or half-hidden in the
this coves; patches of corniields on the steep hillsides; and the unsightly
Sen- shacks _of small mining settlements. The northern part of the route ,
hall traverses the valley of the Big Sandy and its forks, the Levisa and the
vlis- Tug, a favorite hunting ground of the Shawnee, the Cherokee, and