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

During the Civil War, Kentucky was officially neutral, but the state was divided in its loyalties, with many citizens fighting on both sides of the conflict.