Cerulean Springs Hotel Spring House

05/07/2025

Tell us how you know about the Hotel and the Spring House. I married and moved here then got involved with wanting to know everything about Cerulean. My dad was born and raised not too far from here and we would drive through town going to and from church at Mt. Zion Methodist Church.

05/07/2025

I haven’t been on here in a while but I hope everyone is doing good. If you’ve been by the Spring House, let us know. If you have any questions, throw them out here because I’m sure someone in the group can answer your questions.

01/05/2025

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year’s. Stay safe tonight and tomorrow morning if you have to get out. We don’t know what kind of weather we will be getting so just be careful.

02/07/2024

Very interesting

05/29/2023

05/13/2023

This is the old Gardner store in Cerulean at the curve before you get to the Hotel

Where was this store?

03/05/2023

December 17, 1798 – After arriving six years earlier, Robert Goodwin recorded his claim to 200 acres on Horse Creek, and a few days later for acreage on Muddy Fork Creek. The area became known as Cerulean Spring after the 1811 earthquakes. Goodwin is thought to be the first permanent white settler in the area that is now Trigg County.

Robert Goodwin and his adult sons Samuel and Jesse were in a small group of people that left South Carolina in 1789 and traveled into the Tennessee territory. This group, led by Andrew Jackson, reached Fort Nashboro (later Nashville) after a long journey and possibly stayed there as long as two years. About 1792 the Goodwins left Nashville and traveled north into the Kentucky wilderness. Robert Goodwin and his sons chose to settle near the future site of Cerulean Spring. It is not clear when the Goodwins brought their wives and families to Kentucky. At the time they arrived the area was still part of Logan County.

Other settlers began moving into the area and staking claims to land. Finally in 1798, Robert Goodwin legally filed his claim to two tracts of land – each 200 acres. In 1807, Goodwin sold the Muddy Fork Creek property. It is believed Robert Goodwin died in 1809. History accounts state that he is buried in the Military Cemetery; a location long forgotten.

The same year that Goodwin settled in Cerulean – 1792 – Thomas Wadlington, Sr. and his son Thomas Jr. settled at Kent’s Bridge (near the present intersection of Hwy. 272 and Glenwood Mill Road). A few years later Thomas Wadlington Jr. became the first settler at Caledonia. Allen Grace settled near the Tennessee River in the mid-1790s also. These pioneers set out to establish a better life for their families and conquered a true wilderness to do so.

The Cerulean Spring is shown here, courtesy of the Cerulean Spring page

01/21/2022

This is out of the book, Cerulean Springs and the Springs of Western Kentucky by William T. Turner and LaDonna Dixon Anderson. Wouldn’t it be awesome to own something like that?