Manton, Kentucky

Manton is located at (37.714722, -85.35827). The elevation is above sea level. The community is located along Route 605, near where the Cisselville road intersects. It is a few miles north of Loretto where Maker's Mark whiskey is distilled. ==History==

There was a station house on the Beech Fork, a small river, where farmers would store their cattle and produce. In the springtime these waters would flood, providing a waterway which lead first to the Salt River, then to the Ohio River and thence by flatboat the boatsmen could make their way to New Orleans. Some companies of men from the Tenth Kentucky Infantry were mustered into Union service having come from the village of Manton. Most of the men from the Manton area were in Company G. John Hunt Morgan, the Confederate raider, passed through this area on some of his raids into Kentucky. The town is also mentioned in the biography "Three Years in the Saddle – the Life and Confession of Henry C. Magruder" - "The original 'Sue Munday'" - "The Scourge of Kentucky". The small community was once home to a distillery of Kentucky Bourbon named Price and Thompson Distilleries, which closed in 1894. ==References==