Isaac Shelby Cemetery State Historic Site in Junction City, Kentucky preserves the estate and burial ground of Isaac Shelby, Kentucky’s first governor and an important early political figure in the state’s history. Both a cemetery and a state historic site, it centers on the place most closely associated with Shelby’s life and memory. The site entered Kentucky’s state park system in 1951, reflecting its value as both a place of remembrance and a historic landscape tied to one of the state’s foundational leaders.