Tanner Station- 1784

Historical marker location:

Carlisle, Kentucky

( Highway 68, Carlisle)

David Tanner, early Ky. pioneer, landowner, and entrepreneur owned a salt works on the Lower Blue Licks. A fort built over a spring protected the salt workers from Indian attacks. Settlers such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton stopped here to make or buy salt as they traveled the Buffalo Trace from Boonesborough to Maysville.

Dedicated October 3, 2011.

Daniel Boone Buffalo Trace Forts and Stations Early Settlers