The Valley View Ferry provides passage over the Kentucky River in rural central Kentucky. Located on Kentucky Route 169, this ferry service connects auto traffic between the county seats of Richmond in Madison County and Nicholasville in Jessamine County. The ferry was founded in 1780, predating Kentucky's admission to the Union in 1792. It is widely regarded as the commonwealth's oldest continually operating business. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet funds the ferry as a free service. On average it transports 250 cars a day.
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| - The Valley View Ferry provides passage over the Kentucky River in rural central Kentucky. Located on Kentucky Route 169, this ferry service connects auto traffic between the county seats of Richmond in Madison County and Nicholasville in Jessamine County. The ferry was founded in 1780, predating Kentucky's admission to the Union in 1792. It is widely regarded as the commonwealth's oldest continually operating business. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet funds the ferry as a free service. On average it transports 250 cars a day. (en)
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| - Nicholasville, Kentucky
- Richmond, Kentucky
- Ulysses S. Grant
- United States
- Valley View, Kentucky
- Virginia
- Virginia General Assembly
- Ferries of Kentucky
- Pre-statehood history of Kentucky
- Lexington, Kentucky
- Madison County, Kentucky
- Commonwealth (U.S. state)
- Transportation in Jessamine County, Kentucky
- American Revolutionary War
- Daniel Boone
- 1780 establishments in Virginia
- Nicholasville, Kentucky
- American companies established in 1785
- Henry Clay
- Irvin Kershner
- Richmond, Kentucky
- The Flim-Flam Man
- Jessamine County, Kentucky
- Kentucky
- Kentucky River
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- Transportation in Lexington, Kentucky
- Cable ferries in the United States
- Cable ferry
- Transportation in Madison County, Kentucky
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| - The Valley View Ferry provides passage over the Kentucky River in rural central Kentucky. Located on Kentucky Route 169, this ferry service connects auto traffic between the county seats of Richmond in Madison County and Nicholasville in Jessamine County. The ferry was founded in 1780, predating Kentucky's admission to the Union in 1792. It is widely regarded as the commonwealth's oldest continually operating business. John Craig, a Virginia veteran of the Revolutionary War, acquired land in the area in 1780 through a military warrant. In 1785, the Virginia General Assembly granted Craig "a perpetual and irrevocable" franchise to operate a ferry. Daniel Boone, Henry Clay, James Mason and Ulysses S. Grant were among its passengers. The ferry remained a privately owned business for more than 200 years, passing through the hands of seven successive families until 1991. It was then purchased jointly by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and Madison and Jessamine counties for $60,000. The rudderless ferry is guided by cables stretching between four 55-foot towers. The current boat, named the "John Craig" after the franchise's original owner, dates to 1996. The vessel it replaced sustained heavy damage after sinking under the weight of a heavy snowfall and then as a result of salvage efforts. The entire ferry site was renovated in 1998, when authorities replaced the four towers and their cables. Two years later, the ferry authority received a federal grant allowing an upgrade of the barge. The new vessel, longer than its predecessor by ten feet, enables the ferry to carry three cars instead of two. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet funds the ferry as a free service. On average it transports 250 cars a day. (en)
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