Maysville KY Kentucky
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American Melody
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Frequently Asked Questions
Right downtown on the Ohio River, steps from the first shopfronts. Everything in Maysville is done on foot: distances are short and no shuttle is needed.
Walk the floodwall murals first, then head up into the historic district to the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center. Add the Washington Opera House or the Russell Theatre, and if the call allows, a trip up to the historic village of Washington on the plateau.
Ten murals painted by Robert Dafford between 1998 and 2008 on the wall protecting the lower town: they lay out local history from Indigenous nations to steamboats, from pioneers to the shops of another era. It is the first thing you meet coming off the gangway.
A museum two blocks from the river holding more than 4,000 artifacts that place Maysville within the larger history of the Ohio Valley: the pioneer road, river commerce, the Civil War.
She was born here, and the town keeps her memory carefully. In 1953, the premiere of her film The Stars Are Singing was held at the Russell Theatre, with the whole town packed under the marquee. Her nephew George Clooney grew up nearby.
Yes. The family-run Old Pogue distillery continues a tradition in town dating to the 19th century, and the region claims a founding place in bourbon history. Before whiskey, local fortunes were built on tobacco and hemp, shipped downriver to New Orleans.
A historic village on the plateau a few kilometres from downtown, preserving log cabins and Federal houses along a street founded in 1786. Several excursions go up there on call days.
It was at the village of Washington on the plateau that the young Harriet Beecher Stowe, passing through, witnessed a slave auction whose memory would feed her novel. The detour gives the day an unexpected depth, between painful memory and 18th-century timber frames.
Yes, for a quiet call. The floodwall murals read like a giant comic strip, the streets are flat and short, and an ice cream cone on the way back rounds off the day. There are no attractions or organized entertainment.
The blue suspension bridge crossing the Ohio in front of town, an elegant elder from 1931. It frames the scene from the landing and appears in most photographs brought back from the call.
