Why do they call it the 3L Highway?


Why's it called the 3L Highway?

	Margie Prindle's Independence, Kentucky, the Heart of Kenton County, from 1992, cites an interview she had with Mr. Herman McClanahan of Cynthiana, who worked on the construction of the road in the early 1920's. McClanahan said that a Mr. Linus Lamb Liebus, who was a weigh master for the rock used to build the road called it the L.L.L. Highway, after himself, since it had no other name. Lt. Barry Martin suggests to me that a logical explanation that would involve Latonia Race Track, and the convergence of the highway, along with the travel between the three major tracks in the area at the time - one each in Lexington, Louisville, and Latonia. Kentucky Post columnist Jim Reis wrote recently that the answer to this question is the one thing he's been unable to prove.