Mays Lick, KY

Mayslick, originally known as May's Lick) is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Mason County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 252 residents. May's Lick was founded in 1788 by six families from Scotch Plains, New Jersey:. Abraham, Cornelius, and Isaac Drake were brothers, and John and Mary Shotwell were siblings. The Mays Lick Consolidated School was constructed in 1909–1910 for $32,500 The building was the first high school in Mason County and until 1960, was the only public high school to serve the Mays Lick District. In 1982, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The short version is that Mays Lick carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Mays Lick: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Mays Lick is in southern Mason County, 12 miles southwest of downtown Maysville. U.S. Route 68 runs along the eastern edge of the community, leading north to Maysville and to Ohio, and southwest 54 miles to Lexington. Mays Lick's downtown is part of the local map.