Registry Numbers | US 1591, KY 2 (view other lookout sites in United States, Kentucky) |
Date Registered | March 16, 2015 |
Nominated by | Josephine Jackson |
Location | Leslie County, Kentucky |
Coordinates |
N 37° 08.480' W 083° 28.701' (view using Google Maps) N 37° 08' 29" W 083° 28' 42" N 37.141330° W 083.478349° |
Elevation | 1,690 ft (515 m) |
Electronics and Enroachments |
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Are electronic sites enroaching on tower? | Yes |
Comments: | Has a cut stone spring enclosed and shaped like a house just under the hill where water was gotton for drinking. Really neat. Possibaly only one like it. I was told that the original house was also made of cut stone. I would have liked to have seen it. |
Other enroachments? | None |
Access and Signs |
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Directions to tower signed? | No |
Comments? | On 421 N. of Hyden, Ky. About 8 mi. to the Lucinda's Knob sign. Turn left up the hill. It is a few miles to the tower. The spring would be hard to find if you didn't know where it was. I guess that is why it is still in good shape. |