Directions/Instructions
From Princeton go west on 62. After approximately three miles turn right on Crider Dulaney Rd. towards the Western Kentucky Pkwy. overpass. Stop under the overpass, place the car in neutral and away you go!
WARNING. You are on a public road! Obey all traffic signs and rules. Where there are hills there are blind spots. Always bring someone to watch for other traffic. Never try the hill when the road is wet and slippery or during inclement winter weather conditions.
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After trying this natural phenomenon you may question it's causes. Well, we don't want to disappoint you, but whether it is called a Magnetic Hill, Gravity Hill, Mystery Hill or Electric Brae it is an optical illusion. It has nothing to do with magnetic fields, electricity or unknown forces working along mysterious lines.

Picture of the Princeton Gravity Hill. Stop under the underpass and your car appears to drift uphill.

Area Information
Princeton, the county seat of Caldwell County in western Kentucky, is located at the junction of U.S. 62 and KY 91, just south of the Western Kentucky Parkway. The site was first called Eddy Grove, because of its location at the head of Eddy Creek. In 1817, it was renamed Princetown to honor William Prince, an early settler, and the spelling later changed.

The first courthouse in Princeton was a two-story log structure that was completed in 1820. It was replaced by a second courthouse in 1840. The third courthouse, of Italianate design, was completed in 1866 and razed in September 1938. The Works Progress Administration completed a new building on February 15, 1941.

For six months in 1838, the residents of the city witnessed the forced march of much of the Cherokee Indian Nation from its ancestral home to reservations in Oklahoma, along the Trail of Tears through Princeton. At that time, Princeton was something of an educational center with the Princeton Academy, which had been founded in 1821 as the Caledonia Academy, and Cumberland College, which operated from 1826 until 1860. Princeton College was established in 1860, but its construction was delayed by the Civil War. In 1866 it was sold to the Presbyterians, who operated it until its closure in 1907.

During the Civil War, Princeton was subject to raiding and foraging parties of both Confederate and Union armies. A Confederate regiment camped on the grounds of Princeton College, and one of the buildings was used as a hospital. On October 15, 1864, Gen. Hylan B. Lyon's Confederates burned the courthouse, on the ground that it had been used by the Union army for other than civilian purposes.

In 1872 the Elizabethtown & Paducah Railroad (now part of the Paducah & Louisville) was completed through Princeton, and a junction was formed in 1887 with the north-south Ohio Valley Railroad (now the Tradewater Railroad), which connected Evansville, Indiana, and Hopkinsville. The town grew and thrived as a business, educational, religious, transportation, and agricultural center.

Industry came with the establishment of the Princeton Hosiery Mills in 1918. By 1990 the company was known as Le Roi Princeton and was the city's largest employer. With the completion of the Western Kentucky Parkway in the mid-1960s, the city was able to attract other industries. Products manufactured in Princeton include hosiery, jeans, metals, trophies, pallets, and limestone products.
The population of the city was 6535 in 2000.