Old Mulkey Meetinghouse

S of Tompkinsville on KY 1446, Tompkinsville, Kentucky. County/parish: Monroe.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 07, 1973. NRIS 73000821.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Mill Creek Baptist Chur
  • Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Shrine

From Wikipedia:

Old Mulkey Meetinghouse

The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse, also known as Mill Creek Baptist Church, is a historic church built in 1804 in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is part of the Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site.

It is "significant both as one of Kentucky's earliest log churches and for its unusual construction features - its twelve-sided construction and its lack of a fireplace."

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123851459

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