"We have and are in the process of putting more signage around the perimeter since this incident. Willis asked Jack Krakeel, "Do you need to put some more signs more barriers out there?" Maiden said that there is not enough protection for residents and not enough warning signs in the area.Ĭhannel 2's Carl Willis asked the county administrator for Fayette County about the safeguards. She said children often walk the area looking for stray golf balls. I didn't struggle."Īfter making it out, she said her relief turned to concern that others, especially children who play in the area, may get stuck as well. "Something said 'Suzanne, stop fighting it. She could have panicked but said that's when she made a decision that may have saved her life. "The deeper I got there was a suction on my athletic shoes," Maiden said. From memory she said she could see Planterra Ridge Golf Club's clubhouse within view directly ahead and her Planterra Ridge subdivision to the left. Maiden said she went from ankle deep to waist deep in the hole. I'm just really embarrassed, and I'll hit bottom,'" she said. She and her unique beauty are now just another memory nearly lost to the progress of time."About up to my shins. Slowly, memories of the stately lady who sat silently and watched over the track faded. The L&N Railroad, the successor of the L&E, blasted her profile away to move the track and add more stability to the rails in this section, and to reduce the number of rock falls that blocked the tracks. The Day Book, July 15, 1914, page 7īy the 1920s, the need for additional room for a side track led to the death of the stone woman. The other was when a raft of timber in Quicksand Creek crashed against the foot of the cliff, severely crippling one of the workmen. One came when a 12- year-old negro girl fell from the top of the cliff and was killed. The stone woman of Breathitt county has seen two tragedies in the last few years.
Quicksand, Ky.-A woman of stone, looking out of the face of a 150-foot cliff, greets the traveler just below the South Fork of the Quicksand Creek, near here.Ī freak of nature has left the face and bust plainly discernible, while vegetation at the top of the cliff might easily be imagined as a pompadour. Little information about the “lady” is recorded in the pages of history except for a short sketch that was printed in a Chicago daily tabloid and later printed in newspapers around the country.
The spot, seen only from a southbound train, became known as “the Stone Lady.”Įvery day for nearly thirty years, trains laden heavy with their wooden haul steamed past the lady on their way north through Jackson and points beyond. The result was a strange silhouette that gave the general appearance of a woman staring off in the distance with her plummed hat atop her head as trains chugged by headed for Quicksand. Crews used dynamite to cut back the hillside to make a railbed wide enough for a single track to pass below the high riverbank cliffs. The village of Quicksand while the Stone Lady was still on her watch.Īs the railroad bed passed over the bridges at the mouth of King’s Branch and Lick Branch, the possible location for the tracks narrowed. Surveyors and workmen cleared the path along the river to extend the tracks 2.42 miles to the Quicksand and soon laid the tracks. The bustling town was added to the L&E line to transport millions of board feet for sawn lumber out of the mountains to feed the voracious appetites for construction in Lexington, Frankfort, Louisville, and Cincinnati. The “lady” was created in 1891 when the Lexington & Eastern Railroad extended its tracks from the train yards at Jackson to a new spur at Quicksand. The famous “Stone Lady” of Quicksand was no more. It lasted about 30 years, and then one summer, it disappeared. This strange site, created by the need to remove a hillside, was one of the most famous mountain locations that visitors always waited to see. She came into view as the train rounded a curve along the Kentucky River.
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