Cobblestone Path

The Cobblestone Path is a historic road in Bardstown, Kentucky, runs along the eastern side of Bardstown Historic District. Originally longer than today, its existence is due to various construction projects later today limited to the portion between the Flaget Avenue and Broadway of the city and is situated directly opposite the War of Northern Aggression museum. Because the path was always as part of the road system of the city, he heard even today the City of Bardstown. It is used only by pedestrians.

The Cobblestone Path was built in 1785. All services not payable men from Bardstown 16-50 years had to participate in the construction of these and other streets of the city or pay $ 1.25 spacing for each day on which they did not participate in the assigned work. From 1785 to 1825 the road as the main access to Bardstown and the Wilderness Road served. Due to this importance Kentucky and the United States Congress financed the improvements made ​​prior to 1800. For a short time the road was part of the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike. When the highways were built to Bloomfield and Springfield, the reduced traffic on the cobblestone path to pedestrians and riders.

The Cobblestone Path is on a steep slope, which is formed by the canyon of Stewart 's Creek Towne Branch - on the other side there is the My Old Kentucky Home State Park. Today, the path has a length of 350 feet (about 107 meters) and its width varies between about 4 m and 8.5 m. Dolomite - limestone blocks that have been used to pave the way, are not integrally formed; its thickness ranges from 15 to 25 cm. Natural stones and even a limestone boulder lying beside the road. The upper section was between the 1870s and 1900, a popular picnic spot and received during the time the name of Lovers Leap. About ten feet below this point is a dry cave, which is not very accessible.

Soil erosion is since the existence of the path a threat to its existence, at the bottom of a few of the stones have been preserved in place. During the 1920s and 1930s, the local resident Mrs. Ernest Fulton planted many plants along the path to counteract the erosion. With her ​​richly planted honeysuckle, evergreen plants, daffodils and the natural thickets, climbing plants and domestic hardwoods, the path practically a kind of passage through the undergrowth dar.

On 16 November 1989, the cobblestone path was the National Register of Historic Places added because of its importance with regard to the history of transportation in Kentucky.

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• David H. Hall: Cobblestone Path NRHP nomination form. CLG / Preservation Program, Bardstown, August 1989.
• Dixie Hibbs: Bardstown: Hospitality, History and Bourbon. Arcadia Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0738523917th