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The old road from the town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee to Middlesboro, Kentucky through the mountain pass was paved and completed on October 3, 1908. This was an "object-lesson" road (a new kind of paved macadam construction funded by local communities but with federal governmental supervision) initiated by the U.S. Office of Public Roads.
On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of the 153 men underground at the time. The other 91 men in ...
The Eastern Kentucky Coalfield covers 31 counties with a combined land area of 13,370 sq mi (34,628 km 2), or about 33.1 percent of the state's land area.Its 2000 census population was 734,194 inhabitants, or about 18.2 percent of the state's population.
KY 3473 west (Charlie Sizemore Road) Eastern terminus of KY 3473 85.779: 138.048: KY 3477 east (Jacks Branch Road) Western terminus of KY 3477 86.943: 139.921: KY 11 north – Oneida, Oneida Baptist Institute: Northern end of KY 11 concurrency 87.333: 140.549: KY 472 west (Fogertown Road) Eastern terminus of KY 472 91.420: 147.126: KY 1350 north
More than six weeks after catastrophic flooding swept through eastern Kentucky in July, an additional fatality was added to the death toll, the state's governor said Tuesday. The death toll rose ...
Map highlighting the counties located within the region. The goal of the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force is to provide a platform for improving articles relating to the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region.
Kentucky Route 680 (KY 680) is an 18.728-mile-long (30.140 km) state highway in Kentucky. KY 680's western terminus is at KY 80 south-southeast of Eastern , and the eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 23 (US 23), US 460 and KY 80 in Harold
Elk were reintroduced to the Eastern Kentucky mountains 30 years ago. ... a herd of more than 11,000 rocky mountain elk thrives atop reclaimed coal mines in Eastern Kentucky, but that wasn’t the ...