BGuthrie Photos: KY -- West Point -- Bridges to the Past

KY -- West Point -- Bridges to the Past:

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1. BRIDGE_081008_04.JPG: Welcome to the L&N Turnpike. The trail is open to the public from 10:00am to 6:00pm. There may be days when the trail must be closed for hunting or training purposes. On such days, signs will be conspicuously posted. The trail guides below are provided so your walk might be more enjoyable and informative.
2. BRIDGE_081008_05.JPG: To the left of here is this sign: Location of a roadhouse known as Mom & Pops Place prior to the relocation of the Dixie Highway (US 31W) to its present location in 1942. This was also the site of one of the toll gates on the turnpike.
3. BRIDGE_081008_27.JPG: The Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Turnpike corridor segment was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The listed corridor segment encompasses the area from the railroad trestle south to the junction of Wilson and Baker Roads and from bluff edge to bluff edge, and is entirely on the Fort Knox Military Reservation. Only part of the Fort Knox segment is open to the public. The segment is significant for its role, between 1837 and 1859, in regional settlement and economic development as a major transportation route and for its role in Civil War troop and supply movements.
4. BRIDGE_081008_93.JPG: One of the historic bridges. Unfortunately, there were kids smoking under it and, being alone, I decided that getting up close and personal with it wouldn't be all that attractive.
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Description of Subject Matter: The self-paced walking tour provides a unique glimpse of the area exactly as it was 150 years ago, with no "invasion" of 20th century advances. The area is void of electric lines, billboards and advertising, and provides the visitor with a leisurely walk through a pristine, natural 19th-century valley. The tour enters an area of Fort Knox used for military training and as a result is off limits to the public except within designated times during which Fort Knox suspends training in and around the area.

The tour of the historic L&N Turnpike contains 16 points of interest, each addressed in this guidebook. You will meander through a natural environment as peaceful as the trickling creek over which the turnpike passes on three occasions in less than a mile.

150-year-old stone bridges can be viewed from atop the roadway, as well as from underneath, where visitors can get a first-hand look at the condition of the structures.

The only modern day incursion into this valley, other than signs erected for this occasion, is the black top surface of the road. Were the blacktop to be removed from atop the original cobblestone surface of the old turnpike, the pristine valley you are entering would be as it was over 150 years ago.

The Bridges To The Past tour is located entirely on a part of the route of the old L&N Turnpike. The turnpike was first chartered by the Kentucky State Legislature in 1829 by the name of the Louisville, West Point, and Elizabethtown Turnpike Road Company. Capitol stock of $100,000 was issued. Turnpike commissioners in this area included James Young, Henry Ditto, John Stockman, Horatio G. Wintersmith, and James Crutcher. The company was re-chartered in 1833 and again in 1837. The road was finally completed about 1838.

The turnpike was heavily traveled in the 19th century. President Andrew Jackson traveled the road several times. In 1851 the famous Swedish singer Jenny Lind rode a stage coach along this route during her tour of America.
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