Crawfish Bottom

Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community

von Douglas A Boyd

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. "Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects, and the district was razed to make way for the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd provides a record of the vanished neighborhood and its culture, acknowledging the popular misconceptions about the community while

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Amerikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780813144337
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2013
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky