Old Nashville to Louisville Road

Henry Sanders and others were commissioned to improve this road in 1820. It was the only road between between Marion and Taylor counties. Stage Coaches traveling between Nashville and Louisville stopped at Sanders' Tavern. The Sanders family operated and profited from the tavern so improving the road was in their best interest. The road did not pass through Campbellsville; it went from here to Somerville in Green County, passing Salem Baptist Church. Andrew Jackson stopped at Sanders Tavern on his way to Washington DC to be inaugerated President of the United States.

In the 1820's Henry Sanders, James Durham, and John Muldrough, and Henry Sanders Jr. were appointed to under the act of the last legislative session for improving the road leading from Lexington to Nashville , Tennessee , from where same crosses the Rolling Fork to the summit of Muldrough Hill. Green Country, Kentucky Deed Book 4; pp 2-5.

  Published 30 May 2014 ;  last modified 27 March 2018          © Clay Hill Memorial Forest 2014