Maysville

Ohio River city

Maysville is a place name for several American towns, most notably the city in northeastern Kentucky on the Ohio River.

Like many -ville names, it combines a surname (Mason County founder John May) with the common town-forming suffix: We drove through Maysville on our way to Cincinnati.

Kentucky

Kentucky

Bluegrass State

Rosemary Clooney · county seat · port city · steamboat · flatboat · frontier · Daniel Boone · pioneer · settlement

rivertown

Ohio River

Midwestern waterway to Mississippi

wharf · landing · ferry · commerce · trade · shipping · riverfront · flood · bridge · barge

smalltown

Main Street

Town's central thoroughfare

  • charmAttractive personal quality
  • quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
  • dinerCasual American eatery

bakery · festival · parade · neighbors · gazebo · inn · general store · barbershop · antique shops · schoolhouse

historic

heritage

Inherited cultural legacy

colonial · Victorian · architecture · restoration · monument · archives · museum · chronicle · settlers · pioneer

Opposites
settlement size/urbanization

MaysvilleNew York City

America's largest city

metropolis · Los Angeles · Tokyo · London · megacity

cultural and economic character

MaysvilleManhattan

NYC's densest borough

Wall Street · Silicon Valley · Hollywood · Times Square · downtown

Family

May, Mays, ville

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G