Nearly 80 business and civic leaders from more than 50 Kentucky counties met in Bowling Green and formed the group Kentucky I-66 South, according to an article 20 years ago in the Jan. 13, 1991, edition of the Daily News.

The proposed interstate would have run from Virginia through Kentucky to Kansas. However, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet canceled the project after a 2005 feasibility study concluded the project was too expensive with little traffic benefit.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.