The history of roads through Crittenden County can be very interesting. I don't remember ever seeing this stretch of road from Dycusburg to Shady Grove being named the Ruby Lafoon Trail on any old Crittenden maps, so I don't know when the name was dropped and just the State Highway numbers were used. Maybe when the later updated road maps were redone.
Crittenden Press, March 25, 1932.
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Senator Marion F. Pogue (from Frances, KY), introduced the following bill to the last General Assembly.
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the road leading from Smithland, Livingston County, KY, via, Tiline, Dybusburg Ferry on Cumberland River; Thence via Frances, and Mexico over State Project No. 70, to State Highway No. 91, at Cliffie McClure's; thence over Highway 91, to Marion; thence over State Project No. 120, to Shady Grove, thence across Tradewater River to Providence, Webster County, connecting with Federal Highway No. 41; thence with Federal Highway to Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky."
The road to be known hereafter, as the Ruby Laffoon Trail, has the support of the Governor and he has urged the completion as soon as possible.
Governor Ruby Laffoon has signed the bill establishing a road project running from Smithland, thru Marion and Princeton to Madisonville, to be known as the "Ruby Laffoon Trail."
This will cover the route traveled by Governor Laffoon while he was Circuit Judge of this district.
Here is Gov. Laffoon's Historical Highway Marker located in Madisonville, KY.
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