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Environs Tours 95 ¤
On all sides are rolling Helds and pastures, with tobacco
patches and plain weather—stained tobacco barns. Corn grows
luxuriantly. There are fields and pastures of bluegrass, with
grazing sheep and cattle and hogs. Negro cabins nestle together
X for the warmth of human companionship. In the early spring
~ the red—bud flames in all its beauty. Throughout the season
V flowers bloom in profusion beside the road——the tiger lily,
  Queen-Annes-lace, yarrow, black-eyed—susan, chrysanthemum, .
chicory and oxeyed daisy are among the more common. A rabbit *
leaps across, a turtle takes his chances with the traffic, grey squir- *
. rels peer from behind the tree-trunks. The indigo hunting and
1 the cardinal are flashes of color as they sweep through the sun- ,
I shine. Beech and elm and catalpa and sycamore are on every
hand. Great white oak trees throw circles of shade on the fields
. and pastures. This is the Bluegrass in june, when the tiny
l flowers of its famed pasture crop have opened to the sun, and
`* give to the fields a tint of blue deeper than that of the sky.
At 21.1 m. is the junction with US 60; R. from Old Frankfort
g Pike on this route. p
[ The roadway rises and dips through somewhat more open coun-
i try, with glimpses (L) of the deep valley of the Kentucky
” River. At 24 ni. US 60 merges with State 40, veers L. and
. enters the environs of the capital city of Kentucky. _
FRANKFORT, 26 m. (504 alt., 11,628 pop.), capital of the
k Commonwealth of Kentucky, lies in the deep narrow valley of
the Kentucky River, which separates the lower city into two
, parts. Eastward, the citv expands along the bluffs that border
§ the valley. The city is busy industrially as well as politically.
i The great flood of 1937 swept through its lower portion and i
hastened the removal of the old penitentiary which dated from
l the beginning of the city, but otherwise has not affected scenes
, of interest. Here is a southern city that retains, in full flavor,
ll the spirit and the charm of the South. Its substantially built
1 business section is modern without being modernistic. Its resi-
“ dential streets retain the placid charm of an earlier time. Great
_ trees throw their shadows over handsome homes, and enhance
X their air of quiet dignity.
, 140. FRANKFORT CEMETERY, 26.5 m. (L), lies half-
way down the hill that descends to the valley below. A surfaced
1 drive winds through silent aisles where rest together the dis-
tinguished and the unknown who during the long years con-
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