Kentucky’s roadside historical markers have told the state’s story since 1949, but you can’t stop and read all 1,800 of them at highway speed. Roadside History collects the text of every marker, covering everything from a seven-year-old Revolutionary War drummer boy to a centuries-old sassafras tree.
Edited by Melba Porter Hay of the Kentucky Historical Society, the book is indexed by both subject and county. That makes it easy to plan a history-minded road trip or look up a marker you passed too fast to read.
Published 2002
340 pages
$19.95