Kentucky Route 8
Kentucky State Highway 8, also known as KY 8or the Mary Ingles Highway, It is said she was the first white woman in Kentucky. Captured by Indians in Virginia, July 1755, and taken to Ohio. Later she escaped a salt-making party at Big Bone Lick and made her way across the Kentucky wilderness back to Virginia.
It is a Kentucky State Highway that is divided into three distinct segments. The first portion is just 1.22 miles long and runs from Kentucky State Highway 20 near Idlewild to Interstate 275 [1].
The second segment extends from Tanners Road [2] to the north of Interstate 275 and extends eastward to Maysville, ending at Business Business U.S. Highway 62, Business U.S. Highway 68, and Kentucky State Highway 10 [3]. It passes through Covington, Newport, and Alexandria. This is the longest segment of Kentucky State Highway 8.
The final route segment extends from just west of Concord [4] and goes east to U.S. Highway 23 in South Portsmouth, Kentucky [5]. The western terminus of this portion is a very narrow two-lane road that becomes gravel. The segment east of Vanceburg to its eastern terminus was formerly Kentucky State Highway 10 but was renumbered to Kentucky State Highway 8 in the late-1990's with the renumbering of the AA Highway.
The three distinct segments of this route were not meant to be connected together.
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