About Bourbon County, KY

Bourbon County prices drop 14 percent in 2010.

In an earlier report I noted that Fayette county just to the southwest of Bourbon County had jumped in prices by 4 percent. Bourbon county is much more rural and is mostly horse farms. If there were even one more horse farm that sold in 2009 that could affect the price difference. However a 14 percent drop must have other factors that are causing the price decline.

I suspect the largest factor is that there is no large employer base in Bourbon County. The closest large employer is the Toyoto factory in Georgetown. I suspect though that most of the people who work at Toyoto would find it much more convenient to live in Lexington if they were not going to live where they work in Georgetown.

If you are interested in living amongst the horse farms and like the country Bourbon County could be a great spot right now. Take a look at this horse farm for sale in Bourbon County. That is probably a little out of your price range but here is home that may not be.

Geocaching in Bourbon County, KY

Having recently read Cindy Edwards' blog about

Geocaching, it's a great family thing.

I was, fortunately, well aware of what exactly I was looking at this afternoon.

I took a little by-way side trip today, on my way home from a Carlisle Kentucky area home inspection, to see an old covered bridge I hadn't see before (though I'd passed the directional sign many times.

Kentucky's Disappearing Covered Bridges is the blog I wrote about the Colville Covered Bridge.

However, while poking around the bridge looking at it's architecture, I saw something a ways away that just didn't fit in. See the little white spot at the bottom of the arrow.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. So I walked up a little closer to look at it and found a fresh pine board with this sign on it.

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I looked over the top of the railing and saw this:

So I opened the box, pawed through the stuff that was in there: several pens, the log book, some hard candy, a business card or two, and what appeared to be a hash pipe!

I snapped a picture of the inside of the box, signed the log book, took a piece of candy (Don't know if I'll eat it or not but hey), left several business cards, closed the box and went my merry way.

Unfortunately, the picture of the inside of the box just didn't turn out, (dark and blurry, dang it).

An interesting By Way for the Day!

As Cindy said: "If you go to the Geocaching.com site and put in your zip code, you will be surprised at how many treasures there are in your area. And it's FREE. A fabulous outing to do with children, or adults. When ever we go on vacation, we pull up all the caches in the area and go treasure hunting!"

Kentucky's Disappearing Covered Bridges

I was on my way home from home inspections in the Carlisle, KY area, driving down Highway 32 between Cynthiana, KY and Millersburg, KY, when I saw a sign I'd seen several times in my travels.

Colville Covered Bridge


I'd promised myself every time (almost) that one of these days when I had the time, I was going to go see the Colville Covered Bridge.

Anyway, having finished my Carlisle Kentucky Home Inspections a little early today, I thought, what better day (okay, warm sunshine would have been better than cool and rainy but, what the heck) to see an old Kentucky Covered Bridge Treasure, so left turn I went. (Kentucky supposedly had over 400 covered bridges at one time, though they're disappearing a bit at a time.)

A few miles down the road, there it was: The Colville Covered Bridge. (a well spent 30 minutes)

"Built in 1877, Colville Bridge carries Colville Road across Hinkston Creek near Ruddells Mills in Bourbon county. Originally a double post and brace bridge with a single 124-foot span, it was rebuilt after severe damage from flooding in 1997." Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer

It's hard to believe but the water in this little creek has risen enough (more than once) to damage the bridge.

Here's a photo essay of the bridge;

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This is the home of true bourbon whiskey, which was shipped north to the Ohio River and then on by riverboat to the world in barrels stamped Old Bourbon. True bourbon whisky has a finicky range of requirements, primary of which is its mash must be at least 70% corn, and it must be aged for 4 years. It owes its renowned smoothness to the local limestone-filtered water.

The same ground water that makes our bourbon whisky uniquely drinkable has made our Thoroughbreds great racehorses. The county is underlain by high-phosphatic limestone, or karst, derived from the skeletons of sea life deposited during the Ordovician era, roughly 460 million years ago when this area was warm, inland sea. Be aware that not all Bourbon County land offers this karst substratum! There are geological fault lines running through the county and the bedrock can differ drastically from one side of these fault lines to the othe. Buying a farm is a complex undertaking. Cintact

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