[2] The Richeson family provided Maysville with some of the most accomplished and brilliant teachers ever known in Kentucky, and they helped to establish Maysville as a leading educational community during the period 1832–1880.

[2] Upon his arrival in Maysville in 1832, John Brett Richeson, in partnership with professor Jacob Rand, founded and operated Maysville Academy for several decades.

The academy was the first successful secondary school in Maysville and specialized in preparing young men for university level studies.

It attracted a number of students who later attained prominence including:[2] Singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville and lived in the Richeson House in the late 1940s.

The city named a nearby street in her honor when her first movie, The Stars Are Singing, premiered at the Russell Theatre.