Cycle Carnival
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emurock
N 38° 12.098 W 085° 45.882
16S E 608160 N 4228908
A historical marker in wayside park.
Waymark Code: WM3GB7
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 04/02/2008
Views: 13
Text on marker:
On October 8, 1897, a parade of 10,000 cyclists passed here to celebrate a cinder bicycling path along Southern Parkway. Viewed by 50,000 spectators, parade began at Third and Broadway and ended at Iroquois Cycle Club. Many cyclists were in costume; ladies wore bloomers. Bugles and cannon fire marked the parade's progress.
Erected 1897 by Ky. Div. of League of American Wheelmen to honor cycling pioneer A.D. Ruff (1827-96) of Owingville, Ky. The League's oldest member, he had bicycled to Yellowstone National Park in 1893. Marble fountain and stone bench, known to generations of cyclists as "Wheelmans Bench," besigned by famed sculptor Enid Yandell.
Marker Name: Cycle Carnival
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Person
Marker Number (for official markers): 1997
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
Kentucky Historical Society and Kentucky Department of highways.
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