| Metcalfe County, the 106th county in order of formation, is located in south-central Kentucky in the eastern Pennyroyal region.
Metcalfe County was formed May 1, 1860, primarily from the county of Barren, with small sections coming from Hart, Green, Adair, Cumberland,
and Monroe counties. The county was named in honor of Kentucky's tenth governor, Thomas Metcalfe (1828-32). EDMONTON, close to the geographic
center of the county, was chosen as county seat. It was named for Edmund Rogers, who owned the land and laid out the town in 1818.
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