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 U.S. Route 68 (US 68) is a United States highway that runs for from northwest Ohio to Western Kentucky. The highway's western terminus is at US 62 in Reidland, Kentucky. Its present northern terminus is at Interstate 75 in Findlay, Ohio, though ...

, 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. on the

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Lebanon Branch The former Louisville and Nashville Railroad Lebanon Branch (AKA Knoxville Branch) was 77 miles long and ran from Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, Lebanon Junction in Bullitt County, Kentucky, Bullitt County to near Mount Vernon, Kentucky, Mt. Vernon in ...

The community is home to Penn's Store, the oldest general store in Kentucky.

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* Unincorporated communities in Marion County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{MarionCountyKY-geo-stub