Dear Members of the Greenup County, Kentucky Discussion Group, I have received my first map from myTopo.com. I ordered a map of part of Greenup and Lewis Counties, Kentucky. The map is 18 inches by 24 inches, horizontal format, on a scale of 1:25000. One inch equals 4/10 mile. Parts of six USGS topographic maps were used by the mapmaker, myTopo.com, to create the seamless custom order. My purpose in ordering the map was to have a view of all the area from Liberty/Lynn, Greenup County to Quincy, on the Ohio River in Lewis County. I am interested in the roads that were used to haul iron from the iron furnaces of western Greenup County to the steamboat landing on the Ohio River at Quincy, Lewis County. The iron furnaces I am referring to are New Hampshire/Brushy Furnace, Enterprise Furnace, Globe Furnace and Kenton Furnace. The Ohio River was truly a "Window to the World" for the settlers of Greenup County, Kentucky. Without a link to that important waterway, businesses could not survive. Being able to reach the Ohio River meant making a connection to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and all points eastward, as well as having a link to the Mississippi River, New Orleans and out to the Atlantic Ocean. The 1876 map of Greenup County has "Road to Quincy" at the intersection of what is today known as Route 546 (Schultz Fork Road) and Route 784. Route 546 is also designated the AA Highway or Route Ten. The 1876 "Road to Quincy" appears to have been the same route that the AA Highway follows today, in going from Letitia to Quincy. Was this the ONLY "Road to Quincy" from western Greenup County in use in 1876 or were there others? There is another route to Quincy from western Greenup County. It is Route 2070 up Horse Hollow from York. Route 2070 becomes Route 1021 in Lewis County and follows Briery Branch downstream into Quincy on the Ohio River. The owners of the three afore-mentioned furnaces apparently did not keep all their activities in Greenup County. Instead, they routed their product by the shortest way, to the bank of the Ohio River, which took them into Lewis County to Quincy. Being a teamster in the 1850s and 1860s involved handling six yoked oxen over high ridges such as the one on the dividing line between Greenup and Lewis Counties, transporting heavy loads of pig iron. The dual-county nature of much of the lives of the residents of this area has an effect on genealogical research. It is likely that some residents of Greenup County used the Quincy post office, which is in Lewis County. This can cause confusion when trying to locate people. For instance, it is possible that a family could have been enumerated in one county for the Census, while the family was using a post office in a different county. My third-great grandfather William Cooper (ca.1822-1903) lived in Greenup and Lewis Counties, Kentucky, back and forth, from when he left Greenup County for Lewis County about 1852, to when he migrated to Jackson County, West Virginia about 1885. Between 1852 and 1885, I have found at least five moves from one county into the other and there might have been more. Sincerely, Randal W. Cooper P.S. I am interested in when the roads to Quincy were "cut" and which routes were used by each furnace.