Ashland is a city in Boyd County in the Kentucky Appalachians near the confluence of the Big Sandy and Ohio Rivers. It was founded as Poage's Landing in 1786, incorporated as Ashland in 1854, and has witnessed the likenesses of such personalities as Billy Ray Cyrus and the Judds (country singers Naomi and her older daughter Wynonna, who performed as The Judds before Wynonna launched a solo career, and younger daughter Ashley, who became a prominent actress).
Tristate Airport (IATA: HTS) is across the Big Sandy river in West Virginia. It offers several connections to Ashland and the surrounding Tri-State Area.
Ashland is served by Amtrak and its the thrice-weekly Cardinal train service between New York and Chicago, via Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Westbound trains arrive around 10PM while eastbound ones arrive early morning about 6:30AM, delays are however quite common. Ashland Transportation Center 📍 is located in downtown at 99 15th St.
The city of Ashland is "wet", meaning that full retail alcohol sales are allowed. Boyd County is dry, but allows alcohol sales by the drink in larger restaurants (seating at least 100). The same applies in the nearby city of Russell, which is in Boyd County's otherwise dry neighbor of Greenup County. Nearby areas in Ohio and West Virginia are wet.
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