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- Valley_View_Ferry abstract "The Valley View Ferry provides passage over the Kentucky River in rural central Kentucky. Located on Kentucky Route 169, it helps connect 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 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.".
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- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageOutDegree "36".
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageRevisionID "667900252".
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink American_Revolutionary_War.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Cable_ferry.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Category:1780_establishments_in_Virginia.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_established_in_1785.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ferries_of_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jessamine_County,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pre-statehood_history_of_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Transportation_in_Lexington,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Transportation_in_Madison_County,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Daniel_Boone.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Clay.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Irvin_Kershner.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Jessamine_County,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Kentucky_River.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Kentucky_Route_169.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Lexington,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Madison_County,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Nicholasville,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Richmond,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink The_Flim-Flam_Man.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Ulysses_S._Grant.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Virginia.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLink Virginia_General_Assembly.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageWikiLinkText "Valley View Ferry".
- Valley_View_Ferry beganOperation "1785".
- Valley_View_Ferry imageSize "300".
- Valley_View_Ferry locale "Between Richmond and Nicholasville, Kentucky.".
- Valley_View_Ferry name "Valley View Ferry".
- Valley_View_Ferry operator "Same as owner".
- Valley_View_Ferry owner "Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and Madison and Jessamine Counties".
- Valley_View_Ferry terminals "Two".
- Valley_View_Ferry transitType Cable_ferry.
- Valley_View_Ferry vessels "One".
- Valley_View_Ferry waterway Kentucky_River.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageUsesTemplate Lexington,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_Water_transit.
- Valley_View_Ferry wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Valley_View_Ferry subject Category:1780_establishments_in_Virginia.
- Valley_View_Ferry subject Category:Companies_established_in_1785.
- Valley_View_Ferry subject Category:Ferries_of_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry subject Category:Jessamine_County,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry subject Category:Pre-statehood_history_of_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry subject Category:Transportation_in_Lexington,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry subject Category:Transportation_in_Madison_County,_Kentucky.
- Valley_View_Ferry type Company.
- Valley_View_Ferry type Company.
- Valley_View_Ferry type Establishment.
- Valley_View_Ferry type Ferry.
- Valley_View_Ferry comment "The Valley View Ferry provides passage over the Kentucky River in rural central Kentucky. Located on Kentucky Route 169, it helps connect 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.".
- Valley_View_Ferry label "Valley View Ferry".
- Valley_View_Ferry sameAs Q7912269.
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- Valley_View_Ferry sameAs Q7912269.
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- Valley_View_Ferry depiction Valley_View_Ferry.jpg.
- Valley_View_Ferry isPrimaryTopicOf Valley_View_Ferry.