Gravel Switch, Kentucky

Coordinates: 37°34′43″N 85°3′7″W / 37.57861°N 85.05194°W / 37.57861; -85.05194
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For the locale in Livingston County, see Gravel Switch, Livingston County, Kentucky.

Gravel Switch, Kentucky
ZIP codes
40328
GNIS feature ID493182[1]

Gravel Switch is an

Kentucky Route 243, just south of its intersection with U.S. Route 68, southwest of Perryville and northeast of Bradfordsville
.

A post office was established in the community in 1870, and it was named for a valuable gravel deposit to which the local railroad directed a railway track.[2] on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Lebanon Branch[3][4][5]

The community is home to Penn's Store, the oldest general store in Kentucky.[6]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gravel Switch, Kentucky
  2. ISBN 0813126312
    . Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  3. ^ Company, Louisville and Nashville Railroad (May 19, 1871). "Annual Report ..." – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Commission, United States Interstate Commerce (May 19, 1959). "Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States". L.K. Strouse – via Google Books.
  5. ISBN 9780806345642
    – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "Kentucky's Oldest General Store Will Have You Longing for the Good Old Days". September 13, 2016.

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