Kentucky Historical Marker #0557
First Coal Oil. Coal oil first produced here 1851. Plant built 1857, reputed first of kind in world. Mine known for extensive veins of cannel coal. Coal loaded here, exported to England via New Orleans for gas manufacture. English-owned with Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) an investor. Disastrous fire, the discovery of petroleum, and Civil War caused cessation of operation. Erected January 31, 1963.
3 mi. E. of Cloverport, US 60, Cloverport, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0552
Joseph Holt. Six miles north are birthplace and grave of Joseph Holt, 1807-1896. He was Commissioner of Patents, Postmaster General and Secretary of War in President Buchanan's Administration, 1857-1861. Lincoln named him Judge Advocate General of the Union army in 1862. Holt prosecuted conspirators in the assassination of Lincoln, 1865. He retired as Judge Advocate in 1875. Erected December 21, 1962. For more information, see ExploreKYHistory: Joseph Holt
4 mi. E. of Cloverport, US 60 & KY 144, Cloverport, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0073
Lincoln Family Trail. Abraham Lincoln, then a lad of 7, with other members of the Thomas Lincoln family crossed the Ohio River on a log raft ferry near here in 1816. The Lincolns were moving to Indiana. For more information, see ExploreKYHistory: Lincoln Family Trail
Cloverport, US 60, Cloverport, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0850
Early Shipping Point. Cloverport, an important shipping point beginning in 1798 when Joe Houston came from Va., built home and started trading and shipping business. Flatboats carried Ky. tobacco, other goods for sale in New Orleans. Boats sold as lumber. Men came back over Natchez Trace. Houston operated first ferry here in 1802. Shipping increased and steamboats came into use, 1820.
Cloverport, US 60, Cloverport, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0934
Tar Springs. Four miles south. A fashionable health resort of 1840s which had the unique attraction of a l00-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.
Cloverport, US 60, Cloverport, KY, United States