Blue Licks Battlefield State Park
P.O. Box 66, Mount Olivet, KY.  41064-0066.  Phone: 1.800.443.7008

This is the place where the very last battle of the American Revolution took place in 1782. It is located 48 miles northeast of Lexington on US Route 68. There are 100 acres to this Kentucky State Park. It's about a 2.5 hour drive from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Blue Licks Battlefield State Park commemorates more then one era of history! Salt springs at Blue Licks attracted prehistoric mammoths and formed a center of Indian life, then later proved important to frontiersmen like Daniel Boone, who was captured here by Indians while operating saltworks. During the 19th century, the mineral springs was a health resort. But Blue Licks is most renowned as the site of the last battle of the Revolutionary Was in Kentucky. In 1872, Kentuckians engaged Indians and British soldiers near the Licking River. Outnumbered, Kentucky suffered great losses, including one of Boone's sons. "Enough of honour cannot be paid," completes Daniel Boone's quote on the monument for the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Blue Licks.

Buffalo Trace

Long before  the Pioneer came to Kentucky, herds of buffalo roamed this region. A wide path, know as Buffalo Trace, was made by the buffalo and later used by the Indians and Pioneers. This Trace extended from the Ohio River to the salt springs at Blue Licks.