It was named for an old mill used to cut stone during the pioneer days along the Muscatatuck River.

Aside from a small inn built from a brick house known as the William Read Home that acted as a bed and breakfast, and wood-floored tents, the property was seldom improved upon.

It remained a highly forested area popular with travelers between Madison, Indiana, and Indianapolis.

Stone cut by the mill may be found, as of 1962, in the Jennings County Courthouse in Vernon.

[3] Muscatatuck was redesignated as a state game farm in 1956, concentrating on raising quail and pheasant.