TAR SPRINGS/ CLOVERPORT, KENTUCKY
N 37° 49.979 W 086° 38.373
16S E 531718 N 4187345
TAR SPRINGS ON US 60 IN CLOVERPORT, KENTUCKY
Waymark Code: WM63EG
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2009
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TAR SPRINGS
Four miles south. A fashionable health resort of 1840s which had the unique attraction of a 100~ foot cliff from which tar bubbled while from its base flowed eleven springs, each with different type of mineral water. Indians knew and used these curative waters. Wiley B. Rutledge, Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1943~49, was born, 1894, at Tar Springs resort
Marker Name: TAR SPRINGS
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Other
Marker Number (for official markers): 934
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY... KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
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