Yellow brick road
The actual road is believed to be one in Peekskill, New York, where L. Frank Baum attended Peekskill Military Academy. According to a local legend, the Yellow Brick Road was derived from a road paved with yellow bricks near Holland, Michigan, where Baum spent summers. Ithaca, New York, also makes a claim for being Frank Baum's inspiration. He opened a road tour of his musical, The Maid of Arran, in Ithaca, and he met his future wife Maud Gage Baum while she was attending Cornell University. At the time, yellow bricks paved local roads. Yellow brick roads can also be found in Aberdeen, South Dakota; Albany, New York; Rossville (Baltimore County), Maryland; Montclair, New Jersey (Parkhurst Place and Afterglow Way); Bronxville, New York (on Prescott and Valley roads); Chicago, Illinois; Liberal, Kansas; Sedan, Kansas and Chittenango, New York, as well as a school in Abington, Pennsylvania, and abroad in Sofia, Bulgaria.
List of Kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways (1000–1499)
KY 1399 was designated by 1955. The route originally intersected US 60 in Simpsonville, but was closed at the community of Veechdale when I-64 was opened in the early 1960s. The highway was rerouted to what is now Buck Creek Road (KY 1848) and then reconnected just south of I-64. In 2013, the road was rerouted again with the construction of the Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass near the intersection of KY 1399 and KY 1848. It was moved south of the mall and reconfigured to provide access to it.
Kentucky Route 1408 is a rural secondary highway in southwestern Oldham County and northwestern Shelby County. The highway begins at KY 146 (La Grange Road) in the city of Crestwood. KY 1408 heads southeast along Floydsburg Road through the eponymous village. The highway crosses Currys Fork of Floyds Fork and meets the western end of KY 1818 (West Mount Zion Road). KY 1408 crosses Floyds Fork into Shelby County and reaches its eastern terminus at KY 362 (Aiken Road) west of Todds Point.
Kentucky Route 1425 is a supplemental road in the city of Lexington in Fayette County. The highway is the state-maintained easternmost portion of Man o' War Boulevard, a circumferential arterial highway on the south side of Lexington between a pair of junctions with US 60. KY 1425 crosses North Elkhorn Creek on its course between I-75 and US 60 (Winchester Road).
Kentucky Route 1435 is a rural secondary highway in western Warren County and eastern Butler County. The highway begins at US 68 and KY 80, which run concurrently along Veterans Memorial Lane around the north side of the city of Bowling Green. KY 1435 heads northwest along Barren River Road, which comes close to the meanders of the Barren River several times on its course. The highway meets the western end of KY 2665 (Glenn Lily Road) at Barren River. KY 1435 passes between meanders of the Barren River and the Gasper River and crosses the latter river at its mouth at Rockland, where the route meets the northern end of KY 626 (Highland Church Road). The highway crosses a pair of unnamed streams that feed the Barren River and passes through Guy before crossing the Warren–Butler county line, where the route follows Guy Road. KY 1435 crosses the William H. Natcher Parkway and Hocker Branch of Little Muddy Creek before reaching its terminus at US 231 (Bowling Green Road) north of Needmore.
Kentucky Route 1468 is a rural secondary highway in the city of Morgantown in central Butler County. The highway follows Gardner Road between Main Street, on which US 231 and KY 79 run concurrently, and KY 70 (Veterans Way) west of the William H. Natcher Parkway.
Kentucky Route 1472 is a rural secondary highway almost entirely in far eastern Shelby County with a short segment in Franklin County. The highway begins at KY 395 (Waddy Road) near Harrisonville. KY 1472 heads north along Hickory Ridge Road, which closely parallels and sometimes runs on top of the Shelby–Anderson county line. The highway meets the eastern end of KY 2867 (Kings Highway) and crosses over an R.J. Corman Railroad Group line southeast of Waddy. KY 1472 continues northeast along the Shelby–Franklin county line before the highway briefly crosses into Franklin County, where it crosses over I-64 with no access. The highway returns to the Shelby County community of Graefenburg, where the route crosses Goose Creek, meets the western end of KY 2256, and intersects US 60 (Frankfort Road). KY 1472 follows curvaceous Mink Run Road north to its terminus at KY 1779 (Benson Pike) near Hatton.