Editor’s Note: Todd County, Kentucky is a little-known jewel just a short drive from Clarksville. The area offers many unique shopping and eating experiences. We have reprinted the following excerpt from the Todd County Moms blog to give our readers some examples of fun weekend activities.
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By the time you’ve toured around the first 4 Amish stops in Todd County, it’s probably nearing lunch time. Keep heading North on 181 another 5 miles or so until you run into Elkton’s Town Square. Here there are several restaurants open on Saturday but the main attraction is the L&R Soda Shop attached to Weather’s Drug Store on the West side of the square. The Soda Shop is not Amish owned, but it’s still like a step back in time to an old school soda fountain.
Here you have your pick of hamburgers, various sandwiches, salads even steak on most Saturday’s, they have kid meals, and the food is good, but you really go for the ice cream treats! A good mix of flavors that can be had plain, with an array of toppings, in about 5 different cone options, sundaes, milk shakes or malts. You will be glad you stopped to refuel here!
If you are into gift shops and have a few minutes after lunch, stop by Something Special just across the Square on the East Side of the square. A great little gift shop that is nestled in the bottom of what used to be the old Jefferson Davis Hotel. Tell Mrs. Sharon I said hello!
Now back to the Amish. After lunch, head West from the town square on old hwy 68/80 which just west of town will dump you into “new” 68/80 which is a 4 lane highway. Continue West on 68/80 and go about 6 miles to Fairview, KY. You can’t miss Fairview, pretty quickly after you turn left on 68/80 out of Elkton you will see an obelisk (think like the Washington Monument but not quite as tall) which looks very out of place mixed in with all the farm land surrounding it. Drive towards the obelisk.
There are several potential Amish “stops” along the way to Fairview if you are inclined to stop. One would be Bluegrass Stables. I don’t have their schedule but many Saturday’s they have livestock auctions, the last one my family attended was their “poultry” auction where you could buy ducks, geese, chickens, etc.
Look for the next installment to see more fun things to do in Todd County.
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