Streets of Maysville

Maysville was historically important in the settlement of the Kentucky bluegrass region. Frontiersmen Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone were among its founders. Later Maysville was an important port for the northeastern section of the state, exporting the region's production of hemp and tobacco. It was once a center of wrought-iron manufacture, sending fancy ironwork down the Ohio to decorate the buildings of New Orleans, Louisiana. Other small manufacturers located early in Maysville, and manufacture remains an important part of the modern economy. Under the early leadership of Henry Means Walker, for most of the twentieth century Maysville was home to one of the largest tobacco auction warehouse systems in the world.

Maysville was an important stop on the Underground Railroad, as the free state of Ohio was just across the river. Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the area in 1833 and witnessed a slave auction in front of the county court house in Washington, Kentucky (then the county seat, since annexed to Maysville). Stowe included the scene in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852.

The Rosemary Clooney Music Festival, founded by the singer in 1999 to benefit the restoration of the Russell Theater, is held in Maysville each year.

Investigator note's:
When I walked the brick lined streets I truly felt I was set back in time. Running into residence that have lived there since they were born at the Old Delaptated Hayswood Hospital and taking in there knowledge of this town and its not SO spoken but known stories of Hauntings. Which led me and the team to conduct some research and Investigations at some historical and truly amazing places in this wonderful town where time as seem to stand still..

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