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A Day Trip to the Rock House, Creelsboro, KY

By Greg Thomas, Thomas Photography
Owner, Thomas Photograhy; Adair County Emergency Disaster Coordinator, and member Columbia Parks & Recreation Commission

It's Sunday (February 18, 2007) and I had cabin fever so I called Charles Grimsley and we took a short trip to Rock House Bottom in Russell County.

In the past I have rappelled off the top but today was not a day for that.



I've attached are some pictures. At least one other person had already been there today because we saw the tracks.

We made it down under natural stone structure with little problems and back out. When we decided we might attempt to climb up the hill side we change our mind very fast.

Charles had to hold on coming back down and did good. The odd thing this is, after he got out on flat ground is when he went down. Oh yes, I had to snap a couple of pictures of that. I promise I didn't laugh :-)

For the ones who don't know what Rock House is this is some of what it said on the stone:
  • 300,000,000 years old.

  • Used by Indians fishing and hunting
    here in summer burying dead on the top.
  • Rediscovered by the Long Hunters in 1792.
    Named the Rock House 1812
    when the settlers used it for
    meetings and as a picnic area.

    Chapel built from
    natural materials
    Canopy of heaven is the roof
    the good earth is the floor
    the void between heaven
    and earth is the walls

The Rock House is approximately 20 miles from Columbia, KY. One way to get to the Rock House: take KY 55 through Glensfork. About two miles south of Glens Fork, turn right on Crocus Road, KY 1313. You'll pass one of Adair County's most beautiful, ever homes on the right in Crocus, KY. The next main intersection is Bryan, KY. Bear right on KY 1058. In the ghost town community of Creelsboro, turn right on KY 379 travel about two miles watching for the formation on the left.


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Adventurers at Rockhouse, on Cumberland River



2007-02-19 - Russell County, KY - Photo By Greg Thomas.
Columbia City Councillor and Parks & Recreation Commission Chairman Charles Grimsley at the Rock House formation on the Cumberland River near Creelsboro, KY.

A bit of the river can be seen in the background. The road on the other side winds through Russell County's fabled Swan Pond Bottom below Wolf Creek Dam.

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Trip to Rock House: Danger not always where you think



2007-02-19 - Rock House Bottom, Cumberland River, Russell Co., KY - Photo By Greg Thomas.
Accidents don't just happen where you think they will. Moments after deciding the top of the arch was too perilous a place to be on a snowy day, Columbia Parks & Recreation Board Chairman took this tumble, sequenced above, and but rose courageously to walk the slipper path.

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Trip to Rock House: Photo of photographer



2007-02-19 - Rock House Bottom, Cumberland River, Russell Co., KY - Photo By Charles Grimsley.
A record of the visit: Greg Thomas above in the classic photograph proving one has been to Rock House Bottom. (Note to incomers: Even though the Rock House is technically in Russell County, a trip there, photographically recorded as above, is requisite to full Adair County citizenship, to help prove you are really one of us now.)

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Trip to Rock House: Across the river and into development



2007-02-19 - Rock House Bottom, Cumberland River, Russell Co., KY - Photo By Greg Thomas.
This unusual photograph uses the Rock House natural bridge formation to frame the Cumberland River and the development on the other side. Once a rather remote area, in the past few years major developments have come into being, including the one seen across the Cumberland River, here, developed by Attorney David Cross of Albany. On the west side of the arch, Adair County Developer Robert Bell, Egypt, built Bell Harbor.

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