Kentucky Route 8
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| State Highway 8 | |||||||
| Length: | 119.735 mi (192.69 km) | ||||||
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| West end: |  KY 20 |
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| East end: |  US 23 |
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| Counties: | Greenup, Lewis, Mason, Bracken, Pendleton, Campbell, Kenton, Boone | ||||||
| Cities: | Grayson, Vanceburg, Maysville, Alexandria, Newport, Covington | ||||||
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Kentucky Route 8 is also referred to as the Mary Ingles Highway for part of its length. It is rumoured that she was the first white woman in Kentucky. Captured by Indians in Virginia on July 1755 and taken to Ohio, she 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 state highway that is divided into three distinct segments. The first portion is just 1.22 miles long and runs from Kentucky Route 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 Route 10 [3]. It passes through Covington, Newport, and Alexandria. This is the longest segment of Kentucky Route 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 KY 10 but was renumbered to KY 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.
