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DAY TRIP: Rock House Bottom at Creelsboro To take this day trip from Columbia, take Highway 55 toward Lake Cumberland. About 12 to 15 miles along, crossing from Adair into Russell County, look for highway 1058 and turn right to journey to the one public building left in Creelsboro. Give yourself plenty of time to wind around and down, deep into the past. A community reunion is in the making for this September, 2019, and more information will be coming on that as known. Tentative date is the 14th. By Linda Waggener In historic Creelsboro you can stop for a meal, read historical markers or take the road parallel to the river just a ways from the heart of the town and behold one of the grandest natural wonders in Kentucky, the natural arch locals refer to as Rock House Bottom. The Rock House is located at the water's edge on the Cumberland River below Lake Cumberland and Wolf Creek Dam. At this visit, the river is at one of his highest levels because water from the dam is being released. One man knows mostly all the history of the place, historian Brack Flanagan. The Creelsboro, Kentucky landing was a hub of commerce from the 1870s to the early 1900s in the height of the steamboat era and for a time it was Russell County's largest town. Timber, livestock, produce and tobacco were shipped south to Nashville and New Orleans and to Cincinnati and points north. Horses and buggies and wagons made for many a traffic jam in downtown Creelsboro. A gray stone marker at the arch, it reads, in part: "Used by Indians fishing and hunting here in summer, burying dead on the top. Rediscovered by the Long Hunters in 1792. Named the Rock House 1812 when the settlers used it for meetings and as a picnic area. "Chapel built from natural materials Canopy of heaven is the roof The good earth is the floor The void between heaven and earth is the walls." The Rock House is approximately 20 miles from Columbia, KY. This story was posted on 2019-04-03 14:23:06
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