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Boone Way was the ninety-six-mile stretch of road from Crab Orchard to Cumberland Gap. Colonel James Maret, an early advocate of road improvement, was responsible for cutting the roadbed and its first paving. As the L&N railroad agent and telegraph operator in Mount Vernon, Maret developed a concern for road conditions. The highway was in use by 1918, and Boone Way became U.S. 25.
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Mount Vernon, Kentucky · United States
