Big Bone Lick

ID: 3044
This file appears in: Big Bone Lick, Three Miles

Considered the birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology, the fossilized remains mastodons, mammoths and sloths were discovered here in 1739 and have been displayed at museums throughout the world.
Courtesy of the Boone County Public Library

This file appears in: Big Bone Lick, Three Miles

By Robin Edwards
Historical Maker #32 in Union describes the importance of the most famous landmark of the Big Bone area, Big Bone Lick, which is now the site of a state park. Extraordinarily large bones of mammoths…