Blue Licks Heritage Trail Pedestrian Bridge
Jan 6, 2022 7:48:48 GMT
jackscrap and pontiac1940 like this
Post by BuckSkin on Jan 6, 2022 7:48:48 GMT
Pedestrian Bridge that carries Heritage Trail over US Hwy 68 at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park.
Search as I may, I could not find any details about this bridge, such as year built, length, and design.
To be over US Hwy 68, it looks a bit low to me; overheight trucks would have to detour hundreds of miles to get around it.
The Battle of Blue Licks is said to be the final battle of the Revolutionary war; if that be so, we got badly licked at Blue Licks so how could we have won ?
From what I gather, these colors that don't run ran like rabbits that day.
parks.ky.gov/carlisle/parks/historic/blue-licks-battlefield-state-resort-park
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Licks_Battlefield_State_Resort_Park
This site gives an entirely different account of the events leading up to the battle and the battle itself:
www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/battle-blue-licks
In all other accounts I have read, Todd and Boone remained at Bryan Station when McGary and 176 followers pursued Caldwell; these accounts maintain that neither Todd nor Boone were present at Blue Licks.
On the current modern nearly gun-barrel straight highway, with deep rock cuts flattening the many steep hills and deep earthen fills leveling the deep hollers, it is 40.5-miles to Bryan Station and another three miles on to Lexington.
Back in that day, it may as well have been the other side of the world, with countless deep stream and river crossings, and traveling afoot with no straight and direct way to get anywhere.
With two completely different accounts of events, we may never know the truth of what led to the largest defeat of the revolutionary war in Kentucky.
In the first two photos, in the left ditch-line, are two buzzards on a deer carcass.
I was concentrating on the bridge and never saw the buzzards until I was viewing the photos and got to wondering what that black object was.
Although US Hwy 68 is an East/West route, from Lexington to Maysville it gains a bit more North/South; while traveling 41.58 miles East/West, it covers 41.77 miles North/South.
We are traveling West/South.
Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle
38° 25' 49.32" North Latitude
83° 59' 28.90" West Longitude
Elevation: 694'
US Hwy 68
Blue Licks, Kentucky
Nicholas County
Sunday_19-December-2021
Take notice of how the Licking River curves and horseshoes around, over and over and over again; it, and almost any other stream in Kentucky, will twist around like this for it's entire length.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licking_River_(Kentucky)
Search as I may, I could not find any details about this bridge, such as year built, length, and design.
To be over US Hwy 68, it looks a bit low to me; overheight trucks would have to detour hundreds of miles to get around it.
The Battle of Blue Licks is said to be the final battle of the Revolutionary war; if that be so, we got badly licked at Blue Licks so how could we have won ?
From what I gather, these colors that don't run ran like rabbits that day.
parks.ky.gov/carlisle/parks/historic/blue-licks-battlefield-state-resort-park
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Licks_Battlefield_State_Resort_Park
This site gives an entirely different account of the events leading up to the battle and the battle itself:
www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/battle-blue-licks
In all other accounts I have read, Todd and Boone remained at Bryan Station when McGary and 176 followers pursued Caldwell; these accounts maintain that neither Todd nor Boone were present at Blue Licks.
On the current modern nearly gun-barrel straight highway, with deep rock cuts flattening the many steep hills and deep earthen fills leveling the deep hollers, it is 40.5-miles to Bryan Station and another three miles on to Lexington.
Back in that day, it may as well have been the other side of the world, with countless deep stream and river crossings, and traveling afoot with no straight and direct way to get anywhere.
With two completely different accounts of events, we may never know the truth of what led to the largest defeat of the revolutionary war in Kentucky.
In the first two photos, in the left ditch-line, are two buzzards on a deer carcass.
I was concentrating on the bridge and never saw the buzzards until I was viewing the photos and got to wondering what that black object was.
Although US Hwy 68 is an East/West route, from Lexington to Maysville it gains a bit more North/South; while traveling 41.58 miles East/West, it covers 41.77 miles North/South.
We are traveling West/South.
Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle
38° 25' 49.32" North Latitude
83° 59' 28.90" West Longitude
Elevation: 694'
US Hwy 68
Blue Licks, Kentucky
Nicholas County
Sunday_19-December-2021
Take notice of how the Licking River curves and horseshoes around, over and over and over again; it, and almost any other stream in Kentucky, will twist around like this for it's entire length.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licking_River_(Kentucky)
