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The Cave-In-Rock Ferry is one of four passenger ferry services that cross the Ohio River into the U.S. state of Kentucky. It connects Illinois Route 1 in Cave-In-Rock , Hardin County, Illinois , to Kentucky Route 91 , 10.6 miles north of Marion, Kentucky .
The Cave at Cave-in-Rock State Park, the town namesake of Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. Cave-In-Rock is located in southeastern Hardin County at (37.470050, -88.166297 It is bordered to the south by the Ohio River, which forms the state boundary with Kentucky.
In the late 1790s, James Ford married Susan Miles, a daughter of William Miles, who was a brother of the ferry keeper at Miles Ferry, between the Kentucky and Illinois banks of the Ohio below Cave-in-Rock, near the location of present-day Rosiclare, Illinois. Susan Ford provided her husband with two sons, Philip (November 25, 1800 - November 23 ...
Illinois Route 1 (IL 1) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Illinois.Running parallel to the Indiana border, the highway starts at the free ferry crossing to Kentucky at Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River and runs north to the south side of Chicago as Halsted Street at an intersection with Interstate 57.
Cave-In-Rock State Park is an Illinois state park, on 204 acres (0.83 km 2), in the town of Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, in the United States. The state park contains the historic Cave-In-Rock, a landmark of the Ohio River. It is maintained by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). [2]
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Elizabethtown Ferry: KY 297: Elizabethtown and Tolu: Cave-in-Rock Ferry: IL 1 / KY 91: Cave-in-Rock and Ferry Shore: Lock and Dam No. 50: Cave-in-Rock and Ferry Shore Shawneetown Bridge: IL 13 / KY 56: Old Shawneetown and Spring Grove: 1955
For a few blocks, KY 91 runs concurrently with US 60, and then KY 91 goes further north to reach its northern terminus at the Cave-In-Rock Ferry on the Ohio River, which also marks the Kentucky-Illinois state line. It becomes Illinois State Highway 1 upon entry into Hardin County, Illinois. [3] [5]