Bourbon County High Point Trip Report
Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Roy Wallen
From the center of North Middletown, at the intersection of highways 57 and 460,
proceed east on 57 for 1.4 miles. Turn right onto a gravel road at a row of
mailboxes and a post with numbers 454, 496, and 498. Proceed up the gravel road,
past a wooden house, to a brick house where the first highpoint is located.
I proceeded past the house, staying right on the gravel road, past a large shed to
a gate, beyond which was a rusted, dead truck.
A man on a riding lawnmower rode over to meet me and asked what I was up to.
He was friendly and easily granted permission to explore. He just wanted to know
what I was up to. He lives beyond the brick house and to the left. His mother
lives in the brick house and he was interested in knowing which knob was higher.
I hopped the gate and proceeded to the second highpoint and hand-leveled back to
the house, as well as to another area to the south that looked as high (it isn’t).
The house hand-leveled higher and on my return to it, I was able to
verify that it is higher than the knob past the old truck.
Horton Cemetery, the landmark noted in Andy Martin’s book, is currently
difficult to find as a landmark. It is on the left side of route 57 about a
mile and a half from North Middletown. It is completely overgrown but does have
an intact perimeter wall.