View source for Kentucky Route 67 (1929–1969)

{{Short description|Former highway in Kentucky, United States}}
{{about|the original Kentucky Route 67 that existed from 1929 until the late 1960s|the current KY 67 in northeastern [[Kentucky]] known as Industrial Parkway|Kentucky Route 67}}
{{Infobox road
|state=KY
|type=KY
|route=67
|alternate_name=
|maint=[[Kentucky Transportation Cabinet|KYTC]]
|map=
|length_mi=21.491
|length_ref= <ref>This is determined by adding mileage of sections of the original highway. See other footnotes.</ref>
|established= 1929
|decommissioned= {{circa|1969}}
|direction_a=South
|terminus_a={{Jct|state=KY|US 1961|68|KY|80|name1=Kentucky Street}} in [[Bowling Green, Kentucky|Bowling Green]]
|junction=<!--MAJOR JUNCTIONS ONLY-->
{{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|263}} near [[Richardsville, Kentucky|Richardsville]] <br />
{{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|185}} near [[Glenmore, Kentucky|Glenmore]]
|direction_b=North
|terminus_b={{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|70}} at [[Windyville, Kentucky|Windyville]]
|counties=[[Edmonson County, Kentucky|Edmonson]], [[Warren County, Kentucky|Warren]]
|previous_type=KY
|previous_route=67
|next_type=US
|next_route=68
}}
The '''original alignment of Kentucky Route 67''' ('''KY&nbsp;67''') was a north–south primary state highway that traversed [[Edmonson County, Kentucky|Edmonson]] and [[Warren County, Kentucky|Warren]] counties in south central Kentucky. It was one of the original state routes of the state highway system maintained by the [[Kentucky Transportation Cabinet]]. It was established in 1929 and was officially [[Decommissioned highway|decommissioned]] in 1969. At the time of its removal from the state route system, it was estimated to be {{convert|21.491|mi}} long as determined by the KYTC's state route logs and county road logs.
==Route description==
KY 67's original route began at an intersection with [[U.S. Route 68 in Kentucky|U.S. Route 68]] (US&nbsp;68) in downtown [[Bowling Green, Kentucky|Bowling Green]]. At the time of KY 67's existence, the route's southern terminus was located within a stretch of US 68 and [[Kentucky Route 80|KY 80]] where the two [[Concurrency (road)|concurrently running]] routes were within a [[one-way pair]], splitting the route between State and College Streets, a few blocks northeast of the campus of Western Kentucky State College (now [[Western Kentucky University]]). From the State Street intersection, KY 67 followed Main Street (now Main Avenue) for {{convert|0.3|mi}} before making a right turn onto Gordon Avenue to exit the city, skirt the east side of the [[Delafield, Kentucky|Delafield]] neighborhood, and cross the [[Barren River]]. The highway originally ran through parts of northern [[Warren County, Kentucky|Warren County]], including the unincorporated community of [[Anna, Kentucky|Anna]], but passing just east of [[Richardsville, Kentucky|Richardsville]].<ref name=warren37>{{cite map |author= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |url= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/WarrenCo1937.pdf |title=Warren County Highway Map|year=1937|scale=1:62,500|location=[[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]|publisher=Kentucky Transportation Cabinet|access-date=December 24, 2015}}</ref>
At [[Glenmore, Kentucky|Glenmore]], KY 67 intersected [[Kentucky Route 185|KY&nbsp;185]], which branched into the far eastern part of [[Butler County, Kentucky|Butler County]] via Honaker's Ferry (later replaced by a bridge).  KY&nbsp;67 then crossed the [[Green River (Kentucky)|Green River]] into [[Edmonson County, Kentucky|Edmonson County]] via the Bear Creek Ferry, which was a [[toll ferry]] situated extremely close to the Butler–Edmonson–Warren County tripoint, and about {{convert|1.5|mi|km}} upstream from the site where the then-[[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]]-operated [[Reedyville, Kentucky#Green River Lock and Dam Number 5|Green River Lock and Dam Number 5]] once stood until its 2024 removal. Most traffic from northwestern Edmonson County heading to Bowling Green used this ferry for convenience.<ref name=ferryboats>{{cite web|url=https://www.sokyhappenings.com/2021/08/remembering-ferryboats/|title=Remembering Ferryboats|work=SOKY Happenings|date=August 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918004555/https://www.sokyhappenings.com/2021/08/remembering-ferryboats/|archive-date=September 18, 2022|access-date=September 17, 2022}}</ref> The tolls ranged from 10 to 30 cents each time the driver went one way on the ferry during the 1960s.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} After crossing the ferry, KY 67 went further north-northeastward to the community of [[Segal, Kentucky|Segal]], where it had a junction with the original KY 555 (Segal Road, now a part of [[Kentucky Route 655|KY 655]]).<ref name=edmonson1958>{{cite map |author= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |year= 1958 |url= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/EdmonsonCo1958.pdf |title= Edmonson County Highway Map |scale=1:62,500 |location=[[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] |publisher= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |access-date= October 7, 2014}}{{full citation needed|date=December 2015}}</ref> After that, KY 67 followed the present-day KY 655 for the remainder of its current eastward course where it passed through Segal and [[Asphalt, Kentucky|Asphalt]] and it finally met its northern terminus at [[Windyville, Kentucky|Windyville]], where it intersected [[Kentucky Route 70|KY&nbsp;70]].<ref name=ky-1939>{{cite KYTC map |year=1939 |section= |sections= |inset= |link=http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/1939KYF.pdf }} Retrieved October 7, 2014.</ref><ref name=edco-37>{{cite map |author= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |year= 1937 |url= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/EdmonsonCo1937.pdf |title= Edmonson County Route Planning Map |scale=1:62,500 |location=[[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] |publisher= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |access-date= October 7, 2014}}</ref>
==History==
===Road history===
As one of the state's charter state routes formed in 1929, KY 67 underwent some changes throughout its estimated 38-year-long existence, including some reroutings to straighten out the highway in one spot on the north side of Bowling Green, complete with a new bridge over the Barren River, which opened to traffic in 1957. The Bear Creek Ferry was one of several ferryboats that traversed the Green River during the early days of the state highway system; it was one of the few remaining ferries in the area when a feature article on the area's ferries was published in a September 1956 edition of the ''[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|Bowling Green Daily News]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Bill|date=September 23, 1956|title=Ferries Now Rare Sight on Barren, Green Rivers|work=[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|Park City Daily News]]|pages=14, 16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHkfAAAAIBAJ&dq=ferries+now+a+rare+sight&pg=PA36&article_id=7108,7779438|via=Google Books|access-date=November 23, 2023}}</ref>
===Discontinuation of the ferry===
At one time during the 1955-56 fiscal year, the Bear Creek Ferry was decommissioned. Hence, KY 67 became a two-segment highway<ref>{{Cite KYTC map |year = 1965 |sections = }}</ref> as it no longer connected from the Asphalt–Segal area to Warren County.<ref name=Dickey56>{{cite news|last=Dickey|first=Bob|title=Bridge Needed to Breach Green River 'Curtain' In N. Warren|work=[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|Bowling Green Daily News]]|date=March 19, 1961|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLwaAAAAIBAJ&dq=Green+River+Curtain&pg=PA8&article_id=6972,1356697|via=Google Books}}</ref> However, the connected KY 67 was still marked with the toll ferry on road maps as late as 1962.<ref>{{Cite KYTC map |year = 1962 |sections = }}</ref> The Edmonson County section of KY 67 would eventually be decommissioned sometime prior to 1968.<ref name=ky1968>{{cite KYTC map |year=1968 |side=F |section= |sections= |inset= |link=http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/1968KYF.pdf }}</ref> The Warren County section was still signed as KY 67 until sometime in the 1969-70 fiscal year, when the KY 185 alignment in Warren County was rerouted to follow KY 67's course from Bowling Green to KY 185's original southern terminus near Glenmore.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020827135301/http://users.mikrotec.com/~hbelkins/kyroads.html "H.B.'s Fun Facts About Kentucky Highways"]. Archived from the [http://users.mikrotec.com/%7Ehbelkins/kyroads.html original] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020827135301/http://users.mikrotec.com/%7Ehbelkins/kyroads.html |date=2002-08-27 }} August 27, 2002. Retrieved July 12, 2016.</ref><ref name=ky1973>{{cite KYTC map |year=1973 |side=F |section= |sections= |inset= |link=http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/1973KYF.pdf }}</ref> A portion of the original KY 67 between KY 185 and the Wingfield Road intersection is now part of [[Kentucky Route 1749|KY 1749]]. Ownership of the remainder of the road from KY 1749 in Glenmore to the ferry site on the Warren County side reverted to the Warren County Road Department as Lock 5 Road (a portion became part of the new KY 1201, deleted in 1982), while the road on the Edmonson County side between the ferry site and the Segal community reverted to the Edmonson County Road Department, and became Mouth of Bear Creek Road. By 1968, the remainder of KY 67's designation from Segal to Windyville was reassigned as [[Kentucky Route 655|KY 655]].{{r|ky1968}}
The ferry site is now just a boat ramp,<ref name=edco-77>{{cite map |author= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |year= 1977 |url= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/edmonson1977.pdf |title=  Edmonson County Highway Map |scale=1:125000 |location=Frankfort, KY |publisher= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |access-date= October 7, 2014}}{{full citation needed|date= December 2015}}</ref> but local residents still use that area for recreational purposes such as boating or fishing.<ref>[https://fw.ky.gov/Fish/Pages/Pool-5---Green-River-Photo-Gallery.aspx Green River Pool 5 Photo Gallery]. [[Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife]]. Retrieved 12 October 2021.</ref><ref>[https://fw.ky.gov/Fish/PublishingImages/12.JPG "12"]. [[Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife]]. Retrieved 12 October 2021.</ref><ref>"[https://fw.ky.gov/Fish/Pages/Bear-Creek-Ramp.aspx Bear Creek Ramp]". ''Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife''. Retrieved September 17, 2022.</ref> The boat ramp on the Warren County side was built in 1986.<ref>{{cite news|title=Boat ramp to be built|work=Park City Daily News|date=April 4, 1986|page=2A|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oPAaAAAAIBAJ&dq=green+river+ferry+glenmore+ky&pg=PA27&article_id=6836,760147|via=Google Books|access-date=November 18, 2023}}</ref>
===Change of routes from Edmonson to Warren County===
The closing of the Bear Creek Ferry put a strain on economic connections between the Bowling Green area and a natural trading area involving the Butler, Edmonson, and nearby [[Grayson County, Kentucky|Grayson]] County areas. With the Honaker's Ferry connecting KY 185 becoming the only remaining ferry in this segment of the Green River, a bridge crossing became a top-priority need for the area.{{r|Dickey56}} The Elmer White Bridge carrying KY 185 between Glenmore and Reedyville would eventually be built and opened to traffic by 1962.<ref name=ferryboats/>
Since the discontinuation of the Bear Creek Ferry, residents of northern Edmonson County were forced to make alternate routes that adds more time to their commute, depending on where they lived in. Option A was for Edmonson County residents to use [[Kentucky Route 70|KY 70]] westbound to [[Roundhill, Kentucky|Roundhill]] to turn left on [[Kentucky Route 185|KY 185]] for their commute to Bowling Green. This option was used for many residents along Edmonson County's western boundary with Butler County. Option B, on the other hand, is to go through [[Brownsville, Kentucky|Brownsville]] (the Edmonson County seat) using [[Kentucky Route 259|Kentucky Routes 259]] and [[Kentucky Route 101|101]] to enter Warren County, and to make a right turn on [[U.S. Route 31W]]. That option is mainly used by people traveling to Bowling Green from the central part Edmonson County (i.e. Brownsville, Lindseyville, Sweeden, and Bee Spring).<ref>{{cite map |author=[[DeLorme]]|title= Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer |year= 2010 |edition= 2010 |page= 64|scale=1 in=2.4 mi|location=[[Yarmouth, Maine]]|publisher=DeLorme}}</ref><ref>{{cite map|author= [[Rand McNally]] |year= 2021|map=Kentucky|title= The 2021 Rand McNally Road Atlas |scale= 1 in=17 mi|location= [[Chicago]] |publisher= Rand McNally |page= 42}}</ref>
===The return of KY 67===
{{main|Kentucky Route 67}}
The KY 67 designation returned to the Kentucky state highway system in 2002, when it was assigned to the then-new [[Kentucky Route 67|Industrial Parkway]] in northeastern Kentucky. KY 67 now follows a route from the exit 179 interchange of [[Interstate 64 in Kentucky|Interstate 64]] (I-64) in northern [[Carter County, Kentucky|Carter County]] to [[U.S. Route 23 in Kentucky|US 23]] near [[Greenup, Kentucky|Greenup]].
==Major intersections==
This junction list is based on the highway's 1967 alignment.
{{jcttop|length_ref=|county_ref=<ref name=edmonson1958/><ref name=warren1958>{{cite map |author= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |year= 1958 |url= http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/Maps/WarenCo1958%281of2%29.pdf |title= Warren County Official Highway Map |scale= |location= |publisher= Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |access-date= December 21, 2014}}{{full citation needed|date= December 2015}}</ref>}}
{{KYint
|county=Warren
|cspan=7
|location=Bowling Green
|lspan=3
|mile=0.00
|road={{Jct|state=KY|US 1961|68|KY|80|dir1=east|dir2=east|name1=State Street|to3=to|US|31W|city1=Park City|city2=Glasgow}}
|notes=Southern terminus}}
{{KYint
|mile=0.05
|road={{Jct|state=KY|US 1961|68|KY|80|dir1=west|dir2=west|name1=College Street|to3=to|US 1961|231|city1=Russellville}}
|notes=
}}
{{KYint
|mile=0.30
|road= {{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|1435|dir1=west|name1=Barren River Road|city1=Gasper|city2=Morgantown}}
|notes=The southern terminus of that road is now at a junction with Veterans Memorial Lane (later {{Jct|state=KY|KY|880}}, now a present-day alignment of [[U.S. Route 68|US 68]])}}
{{KYint
|location=none
|mile=5.9
|road= {{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|526|dir1=east|city1=Bristow}}
|notes=}}
{{KYint
|location=Richardsville
|mile=7.1
|road= {{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|263|dir1=north|name1=Richardsville Road|city1=Richardsville|city2=Riverside}}
|notes=}}
{{KYint
|location=Anna
|mile=9.3
|road= {{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|1320|dir1=east|name1=Anna-Sand Hill Road|city1=Girkin|city2=Bristow}}
|notes=}}
{{KYint
|location=Glenmore
|mile=12.6
|road= {{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|185|city1=Roundhill|city2=Caneyville|location3=[[Shanty Hollow Lake]]}}
|notes=}}
{{jctbridge
|river= [[Green River (Kentucky)|Green River]]
|mile=13.2
|bridge= {{jct|extra=ferry}} Bear Creek Ferry at the Edmonson–Warren county line <br/> Northern terminus of Warren County segment and southern terminus of Edmonson County segment (1956–68){{r|Dickey56}}
|type=closed}}
{{KYint
|county=Edmonson
|cspan=2
|location=Segal
|mile=16.9
|road= {{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|555|dir1=north|name1=Segal Road|to2=to|KY|70|dir2=west}}
|notes= Original alignment of KY 70 (1929–35) <br> Now part of present-day {{Jct|state=KY|KY 1966|655}} since 1968; original northern terminus (1929–36)<ref>{{cite map |author=[[Gulf Oil|Gulf Refining Company]]|url= |title=Road map of Kentucky and Tennessee|year= 1935|section=|scale=1:1,330,560|location=[[Chicago]]|publisher=Rand McNally & Company}}</ref>}}
{{KYint
|location=Windyville
|mile=21.5<!--21.491-->
|road= {{Jct|state=KY|KY|70|name1=Morgantown Road|city1=Roundhill|city2=Morgantown|city3=Brownsville|location4=[[Mammoth Cave National Park]]|location5=[[Nolin Lake State Park|Nolin Lake Reservoir]]}}
|notes= Original northern terminus of the continuous route of KY 67 (1936–56); northern terminus of Section B (1956–68); now eastern terminus of KY 655}}
{{jctbtm}}
==Related roads==
===Mouth of Bear Creek Road===
{{Infobox road small
|state=KY
|name= Mouth of Bear Creek Road<br />(CR&nbsp;1230)
|length_mi=3.0
|established= 1967
|location=Bear Creek Ferry Site at the Green River to [[Segal, Kentucky|Segal]]
}}
'''Mouth of Bear Creek Road''' is a locally maintained road located in Edmonson County, Kentucky. The road was part of an original alignment of the original KY&nbsp;67 from that state highway's 1929 establishment until its decommissioning in 1967. The road is {{convert|3.0|mi}} long.
{{Clear}}
===Kentucky Route 655===
{{main|List of Kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways (600-699)}}
[[Kentucky Route 655]] (KY 655) is a rural secondary state highway in Edmonson County. The latter {{convert|3.569|mi}} of KY 655, along with the county-maintained Mouth of Bear Creek Road, was the original course of KY 67 through the area until the 1967 decommissioning of that route, connecting the Windyville-Asphalt-Segal area directly to Warren County. KY 655 is currently a C-shaped route serving as a farm-to-market style road that meanders around the area, both termini are with intersections with KY 70. The total length of the current KY 655 routing is {{convert|9.214|mi}}.
==See also==
*{{Portal-inline|United States}}
*{{Portal-inline|U.S. Roads}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.transportation.ky.gov/ Kentucky Transportation Cabinet]
*[http://www.maps.bing.com/ Bing Maps] - reference source for purpose of current highway alignments.
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[[Category:Former state highways in Kentucky|0067]]
[[Category:Transportation in Edmonson County, Kentucky|0067]]
[[Category:Transportation in Warren County, Kentucky|0067]]