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Cove Springs Nature Preserve is a city park located north of downtown Frankfort on Highway 127. Cove Spring at the head of this valley is the source of Penitentiary Branch. Early pioneers in the Frankfort area used Cove Spring as a water supply; the spring water being cleaner and cooler than Kentucky River water. The gray and brown rock that makes the falls, the flat area where the bench sits, and the short vertical cliff at the base of the ridge form an outcrop of a rock unit known as the Tyrone Limestone. The Tyrone was deposited during the Ordovician, between 460 and 455 million years ago. During that time, Kentucky was covered by a warm, shallow, tropical ocean. Some of the animals that lived in those seas included trilobites and brachiopods, which is the Kentucky state fossil. You won't find many fossils in the Tyrone, however. For more information on Cove Springs, visit www.frankfortparksandrec.com. This music is Eternityscape by HAK and is used under the Creative Commons License, see Archive.org. The K