Official Name: | Mount Merino, Kentucky |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Kentucky#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Mount Merino |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Kentucky |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Breckinridge |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 643 |
Coordinates: | 37.8967°N -86.2847°W |
Area Code: | 270 & 364 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 498771 |
Mount Merino, Kentucky is an unincorporated community near Irvington in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
The community can trace its founding to 1832 when two brothers, Dr. Benedict Wathen and Dr. Richard M. Wathen, purchased the land and helped establish a Roman Catholic seminary there in 1838. The school closed in 1843 and in 1854 the Mount Merino farm became the home for the Holy Guardian Angel Catholic Church, a mission of St. Theresa Parish at Rhodelia. In 1930 it was decided to build a new church in Irvington as the old church needed many repairs and to be closer to the population center.[1]