Clays Ferry is a Fayette county community on the Kentucky River at KY 2328 below the mouth of Boones Creek and extending across the river into Madison county. The community originated about 1790 around the landing owned by Eli Cleveland. The ferry opened in 1792 and the site became known first as Stone's Ferry, for Valentine Stone, the first owner, and after 1798 as Clay's Ferry, for Green Clay, the second owner. The ferry is gone, but the river is crossed by a bridge constructed in 1869 on what was once the Richmond and Lexington Turnpike and later US 25. High above this bridge the river is now also crossed by a bridge that now carries I-75. A two lane bridge, over 200 feet above the river, was completed in 1946 and was at the time one of the highest highway bridges in the country. A second two lane bridge was added in 1963 and a third is scheduled to be completed about 1997. A Cleveland or Cleaveland post operated at the site or somewhere in the area intermittently from 1853 until 1928.