Gravel Switch, Kentucky

Gravel Switch is an unincorporated community within Marion [County, Kentucky|Marion County], Kentucky, United States. It is located along Kentucky Route 243, just south of its intersection with U.S. Route 68, southwest of Perryville and northeast of Bradfordsville.
A post office was established in the community in 1870, and it was named for a valuable gravel deposit to which the local railroad directed a railway track. on the Louisville and [Nashville Railroad Lebanon Branch]
The community is near Penn's Store, the oldest general store in Kentucky, geographically located in nearby Boyle County.