Gravel Switch, Kentucky

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States}}

{{For|the locale in Livingston County|Gravel Switch, Livingston County, Kentucky}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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Gravel Switch is an unincorporated community within Marion County, Kentucky, United States. It is located along Kentucky Route 243, just south of its intersection with U.S. Route 68, southwest of Perryville and northeast of Bradfordsville.

A post office was established in the community in 1870, and it was named for a valuable gravel deposit to which the local railroad directed a railway track.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&q=cannon+ky&pg=PA123 | title=Kentucky Place Names | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | year=1987 | accessdate=2013-04-28 | author=Rennick, Robert M. | pages=123| isbn=0813126312 }} on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Lebanon Branch{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Phc4AAAAIAAJ&q=Gravel+Switch+rail+yard&pg=PA146|title=Annual Report ...|first=Louisville and Nashville Railroad|last=Company|date=May 19, 1871|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-_5x-97qpEC&q=Gravel+Switch+rail+yard&pg=PA800|title=Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States|first=United States Interstate Commerce|last=Commission|date=May 19, 1959|publisher=L.K. Strouse|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GqPtr-hyQskC&q=tennessee+river+gravel+switch+rail&pg=PA633|title=History of Kentucky:|first1=Lewis|last1=Collins|first2=Richard H.|last2=Collins|date=October 20, 1998|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806345642|via=Google Books}}

The community is home to Penn's Store, the oldest general store in Kentucky.{{Cite web | url=https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kentucky/kys-oldest-general-store/ |title = Kentucky's Oldest General Store Will Have You Longing for the Good Old Days|date = 2016-09-13}}