Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky CommunityA 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