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C B RAWFISH OTTOM KENTUCKY REMEMBERED: AN ORAL HISTORY SERIES James C. Klotter, Terry L. Birdwhistell, and Doug Boyd, Series Editors Conversations with Kentucky Writers edited by L. Elisabeth Beattie Conversations with Kentucky Writers II edited by L. Elisabeth Beattie Barry Bingham Barry Bingham Crawfi sh Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community Douglas A. Boyd This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak Arwen Donahue and Rebecca Gayle Howell Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Catherine Fosl and Tracy E. K’Meyer Bert Combs the Politician George W. Robinson Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentucky’s Burley Belt John van Willigen and Susan C. Eastwood Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920–1950 John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson C RAWFISH B OTTOM Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community D A. B OUGLAS OYD FOREWORD BY W. FITZHUGH BRUNDAGE T U P K HE NIVERSITY RESS OF ENTUCKY Copyright © 2011 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved. Editorial and Sales Offi ces: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008 www.kentuckypress.com 15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Boyd, Douglas A., 1970– Crawfi sh Bottom : recovering a lost Kentucky community / Douglas A. Boyd ; foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. p. cm. — (Kentucky remembered : an oral history series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8131-3408-6 (hardcover : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-8131-3409-3 (ebook) 1. Crawfi sh Bottom (Frankfort, Ky.)—History. 2. Crawfi sh Bottom (Frankfort, Ky.)—Social life and customs. 3. Community life—Kentucky— Frankfort—History. 4. Crawfi sh Bottom (Frankfort, Ky.)—Biography. 5. Oral history—Kentucky—Frankfort. 6. Frankfort (Ky.)—History. 7. Frankfort (Ky.)—Social life and customs. 8. Frankfort (Ky.)—Biography. I. Title. F459.F8B69 2011 976.9’432—dc23 2011017089 This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. Manufactured in the United States of America. Member of the Association of American University Presses For Jennie, Charlotte, Kathleen, and Eleanor Boyd Contents List of Illustrations ix Series Editors’ Foreword xi Foreword xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Reputation as History 1 1. The “Lower” Part of the City 15 2. Defi ning Craw 55 3. Contesting Public Memory 79 4. The Other Side of the Tracks 111 5. The King of Craw 145 Conclusion: Remembering Craw 183 Notes 189 Selected Bibliography 205 Index 213 Illustrations View of the plaza on the former location of the neighborhood 3 View of the plaza fountain and the State Offi ce Tower 4 Map of Frankfort, 1796 16 Detail of the neighborhood from an 1818 map 17 Map of the neighborhood, 1854 18 Northwest Frankfort 19 View of Wilkinson Street, 1913 20 View of the neighborhood, 1913 20 Detail of map showing Fish Trap Island, 1818 21 View of the neighborhood, 1913 22 A few residents of the neighborhood, 1913 23 Two views of neighborhood during the 1883 fl ood 29 Loggers on the North Fork of the Kentucky River, 1900 31 Gaines’ Alley 36 Lottie Brown 40 Various views of the neighborhood, 1913 50–52 The neighborhood as depicted in an 1882 atlas 67 Neighborhood boundaries as defi ned by Gill, McCoy, and Sanders 70 Neighborhood boundaries as defi ned by Margaret Berry 71 Neighborhood boundaries as defi ned by John Calhoun 73 Neighborhood boundaries as defi ned by Mary Helen Berry 74 Neighborhood boundaries as defi ned by Barbara White 75 Mayo-Underwood School, 1930 93 American Legion building at 429 Washington Street, 1917 97 James “Squeezer” Brown 102 Flood scene near People’s Pharmacy 106 Blue Moon Saloon 118 Clinton and Washington, 1940 119 Ida Howard 139