[1] Holy Rosary, a mission church, is a brick building on Hardin's Creek close to the Beech Fork River.

[3] Derivation of the name of this town has been attributed to the surnames of William Frederick Mandt and his wife, Mary Ann Harrington; however, the Kentucky town and U.S.Post Office named in their honor was Manton, Floyd County, Kentucky, ZIP Code (now inactive) 41648.

There was a station house on the Beech Fork, a small river, where farmers would store their cattle and produce.

Some companies of men from the Tenth Kentucky Infantry were mustered into Union service having come from the village of Manton.

The town is also mentioned in the biography "Three Years in the Saddle – the Life and Confession of Henry C. Magruder" - "The original 'Sue Munday'" - "The Scourge of Kentucky".