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| Logan County was formed from Lincoln County
on September 1, 1792, it ran from the Little Barren River on the east to
the Mississippi River on the west and from the Ohio and Green rivers on
the north to Tennessee on the south. It was named after Gen. Benjamin
Logan, a Virginian who came to the Kentucky frontier in 1774 and
participated in several campaigns against the Indians. The county seat
is RUSSELLVILLE.
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The first settlement was Maulding's Station
on the north fork of the Red River in 1780; the Maulding family became
prominent county residents. A diverse mixture of people immigrated to
Logan County. Peter Cartwright, a noted Methodist minister who lived
near Adairville from 1793 to 1802, damned the area as "Rogue's
Harbor" because it was the home of the lawless from almost all
parts of the Union-murderers, horse thieves, highway robbers, and
counterfeiters. In this setting, the GREAT REVIVAL of 1800, led by the
Rev. James McGready, a Presbyterian minister, started at Red River
Meeting House. In 1807 many members of the Gasper Presbyterian Church,
including John Rankin, the minister, joined with three Shaker
missionaries to form the Shaker settlement at South Union (twelve miles
east of Russellville).
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