A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom
was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River.
"Craw's" reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary
conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects, and the district
was razed to make way for the city's Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s.
Douglas A. Boyd provides a record of the vanished neighborhood and its
culture, acknowledging the popular misconceptions about the community
while