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Rockcastle County became the fifty-second Kentucky county in 1810, created out of Knox, Lincoln, Madison, and Pulaski counties. Isaac Lindsey, who came here with a hunting party in 1767, observed a lone rock that resembled an ancient castle, and from this the river was named, later the county. Dr. Thomas Walker and party, the first white men to visit the interior of Kentucky, were at this rock as early as 1750.
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Mount Vernon, Kentucky · United States
