Morgan's Raiders, coming from Tennessee, attacked Major Thomas J. Jordan's 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry at USA garrison.

The 20-acre (81,000 m2) park features the oldest log meetinghouse in Kentucky, built in 1804 during a period of religious revival.

Many Revolutionary War soldiers and pioneers, including Daniel Boone's sister, Hannah, are buried there.

The structure has twelve corners in the shape of a cross and three doors, symbolic of the Holy Trinity.

The Old Mulkey Church, originally called the Mill Creek Baptist Church, was established by a small band of pioneer Baptists from North and South Carolina and led by Philip Mulkey.

Located on the overwhelmingly Unionist eastern Pennyroyal, which was too hilly to have large plantations with many slaves, Monroe County was split 50/50 to secession during the Civil War.

Underlining how Republican the county is, Franklin D. Roosevelt did no better than 38 percent in his four successful bids for president, and actually polled two points lower in 1936 (while winning 46 out of 48 states) than he did in 1932.

Since the 1970s, splits among the county's Republicans have led to the election of a few Democrats and independents for local offices.

The county has produced two members of Congress, Tim Lee Carter and James Comer.