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Location of Mason County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mason County, Kentucky.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mason County, Kentucky, United States.
From 1887 to 1905, Maysville was home to The Evening Bulletin, a newspaper published by Rosser & McCarthy. [47] The Ledger Independent is the local newspaper and is published five days a week. WFTM-AM and WFTM-FM are the primary local radio stations in Maysville. The AM station is a CBS Sports Radio affiliate, [48] and the FM plays adult ...
[2] Mechanics' Row. The Greek Revival Mason County Courthouse was built in 1844. It is treated as a temple with a continuous cornice or entablature. The adjacent Presbyterian Church was built in Gothic style in 1850 following the destruction of an earlier Second Street church by fire. [2]
Mason County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,120. [1] Its county seat is Maysville. [2] The county was created from Bourbon County, Virginia in 1788 and named for George Mason, a Virginia delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights".
Washington achieved national attention in 1830 when on May 27 President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have allowed the Federal Government to purchase stock in the Maysville-Washington-Lexington Turnpike Road Company. (This is the so-called Maysville Road Veto.) This road would have connected Lexington with ...
The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.88. In the city the population was spread out, with 23.6% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.2 males.
The City of Maysville purchased the building in 2006 for $200,000 as a restoration project. [2] The roof, fourth and fifth floors were destroyed by fire on November 9, 2010. Restoration work continued and the completed work was dedicated at 11:00 am on September 7, 2012.
Kentucky Route 8 is a 114.202-mile-long (183.790 km) east–west state highway divided into two distinct segments across northern Kentucky.The western terminus of the route is at KY 237 near Francisville.