ULTRA RARE BLUE LICK SPRING WATER COVINGTON KY ALL reasonable OFFERS CONSIDERED Start Price USD 1,250.00 Current Price USD 1,250.00 Time Left 23 days 14 hours 55 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 02, 2008 End Time Saturday, January 31, 2009 Location Latonia, Kentucky See more about 'ULTRA RARE BLUE LICK SPRING WATER COVINGTON KY' Description SELLING ONLY TO RAISE FAST CASH. I am very saddened to have to offer my child: "THE KENTUCKY BLUE LICK WATER CO. / COVINGTON, KY." BIG BOLD TALL 10 5/8" Light amber coloration Ca. 1870-1889 smooth base, Applied top, GOOD STRIKE.  Small flake off of base and very hard to find 4mm bruise in lip. Demand for the Blue Lick Springs water was so high that James W Pierce formed the Blue Licks Water Company at 8th and Madison Streets in Covington Kentucky.  Then in 1896 the Blue Lick Springs stopped flowing.  This is an extremely rare bottle and possibly unique.  Found just a few blocks from the bottlers location.  An outstanding bottle not only in it's historical significance but it's rarity.  A must have for any hard core Blue Licks collector.  Remember bid with confidence, 30 days no questions return. (I've never had one sent back!) Fast shipping!  Check out my other rare soda mineral waters etc...!  The following is some historical background: Blue Licks is in ROBERTSON along the south bank of the Licking River. The area was explored in 1773 and salt licks were discovered at what were called Upper and Lower Blue Licks. Settlement began about ten years later. The Lower Blue Licks post office opened in 1805 and operated as Blue Lick Springs from 1850 until 1919, when it closed. Blue Lick Springs was a popular spa and resort during the last half of the nineteenth century and included a 300-room hotel. The Lower Blue Lick Springs resort from Collins' History of Kentucky. It burned in 1862. The old bridge over the Licking at Lower Blue Licks. What is often called the last battle of the American Revolution occurred below Lower Blue Licks on 19 August 1782. A group of settlers and militia, including Daniel Boone, set out from Bryan's Station near Lexington in pursuit of a much larger force of Indians and British and were ambushed after crossing the Licking River. The Blue Licks Battlefield State Park now marks the spot. History of Carlisle & Nicholas County Nicholas County, the forty-second county in order of formation, is located in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. The county is bounded by Harrison, Robertson, Fleming, Bath and Bourbon counties and contains an area of 197 square miles, most of which is hill country. The county was formed in 1799 from Mason and Bourbon counties and was named for Col. George Nicholas of Fayette County, a Revolutionary War veteran and a popular lawyer in early Kentucky. Carlisle has been the county seat since 1816. Robertson County, the smallest county in the state, was formed from Nicholas County in 1867. Large prehistoric mammals that inhabited Kentucky after the last Ice Age were drawn to the salt licks at what is now Blue Licks Battlefield State Park on the Nicholas-Robertson county line. In the early historic era, buffalo created trails through the area to the licks. These trails were used by Indians on hunting trips and by pioneers such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, who came to the licks to make salt. The Buffalo Trace, later known as Smith's Wagon Road, became an important connection between the Ohio River at Limestone (now Maysville) and Lexington. The existence of the road, sixty feet wide in places, was the prime reason for the settlement of the county. The Limestone Road was the first macadamized road in the state and is now part of Highway 68. The first settlement in Nicholas County was made at Blue Licks around 1784 by David Tanner. Blue Licks, which has been known as Salt Springs, Lower Blue Lick Springs, and Blue Lick Springs, received its name from the blue-gray deposit left by mineral water between the original spring and the Licking River. The water in the spring drained toward the river, creating a quagmire that trapped thirsty animals attracted to the salt. In 1800, the first session of the county court was held at the home of Martin Baker, Jr., at Lower Blue Licks. In August of 1800, the court began meeting in the new courthouse at Blue Licks. Typical court matters during the early years included issuing orders for surveying roads, appointing overseers for construction crews, issuing licenses to tavernkeepers, inventorying estates of deceased persons, and granting permission for construction of gristmills and routes for the transportation of salt water from Blue Licks. A new county seat named Ellisville was established in 1805 on the James Ellis farm along the Lexington- Maysville Road. A log courthouse was built there the same year. The county seat was moved to Carlisle in 1816. During the mid-1800s, Blue Lick Springs in Nicholas County became a spa, where wealthy travelers flocked to enjoy the rejuvenating effects of mineral water, which was bottled and shipped all over the world. Two cooper shops were kept busy making staves and assembling kegs and barrels to ship the water in bulk. At one time the Arlington Hotel at Blue Licks had three hundred rooms. There was also a military school at Blue Licks around 1848, where James G. Blaine, an 1884 presidential candidate, taught prior to becoming a politician. The battle of Blue Licks was but one tragic episode in the warefare between Kentucky settlers and Native Americans that raged off and on from the earliest pioneer days until the conclusion of the War of 1812.  The Blue Licks Springs was a thriving health resort of the mid-nineteenth century in Nicholas County, Kentucky across from Robertson County.  In the late 1770s, the saline water from the springs was used in salt making.  With the development of more productive salt works, such as Bullitt's Lick in 1779, salt manufacturing ceased.  In the early1880's one of the owners of the springs, William Bartlett, began to bottle and sell the water as medicinal.  He also began construction of the Blue Lick Springs resort.  Meeting with only moderate sucess, the spa passed from Bartlett through several other owners.  John and L.P. Holladay bought the resort in the  in the early 1840s and built the luxurious, three-hundred-room Arlington Hotel in 1845.  Blue Lick Springs, only 24 miles from Maysville, along a major stage route between Ohio and Tennessee, became one of Kentucky's most popular spas.  During cholera outbreaks in the state between 1833 and 1849, the resort was completely free of the dreaded disease.  Not only was the hotel filled at this time, but there was also a boom in bottled Blue Lick water, which until that timehad only a limited local market.  Bartlett emphasized the medicinal qualities of the water, and it became nearly as popular as the resort. During the civil war, the spa virtually closed down because of lack of patronage, and the Arlington Hotel was destroyed by a fire in 1862.  The bottled water however, continued to be profitable.  Companies such as Pierce and Stanton of Maysville, Kentucky, and the Blue Lick Water Company of Covington, Kentucky, marketed the water from the late 1850's through the 1870's.  After the Civil War, Blue Lick Springs was renovated by its new owner, Capt. D. Turney, and by 1888 was again a popular resort.  In 1889 the lower Blue Lick Springs Company was incorporated and began to bottle and sell the water.  In 1886 the spring ceased to flow and a well that was dug produced too little water to support sales.  Having lost its major attraction, the resort closed early in the twentieth century. (see Joan W. Conley, History of Nicholas County Carslile, Ky., 1976. HIGHEST OFFER GETS IT.  MUST SELL FAST. 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