Est. 1811
(Thomas Jefferson)
Jefferson County displays a great boulder-strewn canyon that sunlight can only penetrate at high noon. Mosses and ferns cling to the cliffs along Clifty Creek where Big Clifty Falls drops 60 ft. in its run to the Ohio River. In 1846, the county benefited from a railroad which cut through limestone hills on a 1.3 mile incline, rising 311 ft. per mile, one of the steepest standard gauge railroads ever built in the U.S.