The Red River Meeting House was the site of the first religious camp meeting in the United States. Held June 13–17, 1800, it marked the start of the Second Great Awakening, a major religious movement in the United States in the first part of the nineteenth century. The Red River Meeting House and Cemetery is open from dawn to dusk seven days a week. This is a beautiful place to visit set in the lush farmlands of Logan County.

Major Richard Bibb, a Revolutionary War soldier, was born in Virginia in 1752. He came to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1798 and moved to Logan County the following year where he built Bibb's Chapel. Later, he erected this house for his wife. Maj. Bibb freed 29 of his slaves in 1829 and sent them to Liberia. He died in 1839, and his will provided for the release of his other slaves and gave them land.

John Jordan Crittenden had a long and successful political career. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives, Kentucky Secretary of State, five terms as a U.S. Senator, U.S. Attorney General under three presidents and in 1848, was governor of Kentucky.

Between 1807 and 1922 a communal religious sect called the Shakers occupied a 6,000-acre farm in southern Kentucky. Within the confines of this vast plantation, the group constructed a village that boasted over two hundred buildings, including massive dormitories, subsidiary shops and outbuildings, barns and stables, and a mill complex that was unequaled in the region. The Shakers called their village South Union. Visit their website for more information and events.