Mineral Mound State Park is a park located on the shores of

Lake Barkley Lake Barkley, a reservoir in Livingston County, Lyon County and Trigg County in Kentucky and extending into Stewart County and Houston County in Tennessee, was impounded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1966 upon the completion of Bark ...

in Lyon County,

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...

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. The park contains an 18-hole golf course with clubhouse, a boat ramp, fishing pier, and picnicking area. Mineral Mound is named after the mansion of

Willis B. Machen Willis Benson Machen (April 10, 1810 – September 29, 1893) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky. Early life Willis Benson Machen was born the son of Henry Ballenger Machen and Nancy Machen (née Tarrant) on April 10, 1810 in Caldw ...

, which formerly stood on the property.

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Mineral Mound State Park
Kentucky Department of Parks {{authority control State parks of Kentucky Protected areas of Lyon County, Kentucky Protected areas established in 2003