Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Mountain Eagle is a local weekly newspaper published in Whitesburg, Kentucky. It is the main newspaper of Letcher County, Kentucky and one of the primary newspapers of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield. It was published by Thomas E. Gish until his death in November 2008, and edited by his son, Benjamin T. Gish.
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.
Created from merger of Eastern Kentucky Journal (1916) [34] and Sandy Valley Enquirer (1936) [35] Greensburg Herald–Record: Greensburg: 1926 Weekly Walt Gorin Created from merger of The Green County Record (1895) and The Greensburg Herald (1926) [36] Greenup County News–Times: Greenup: 1930s [37] Weekly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc ...
The Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force covers articles relating to the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region of Kentucky. The 31 counties covered by the region ...
Eastern Kentucky Coalfield geography stubs (27 C) Pages in category "Eastern Kentucky Coalfield" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
A series of blasts in 1976 at the Scotia Mine in Eastern Kentucky is considered to be among the worst mine disasters in U.S. history. It was shortly before noon March 9, 1976, when an explosion ...
By 2001 8.36 billion tons of coal had been extracted from Kentucky, 5.78 billion tons coming from the Eastern Coalfield and 2.58 billion tons coming from the Western Coalfield. [6] As of 2004 around 13% of total coal reserves had been extracted from the Western Coalfield, although much of the remaining 87% of reserves were not reachable with ...
Roy Lee Kidd [1] (December 4, 1931 – September 12, 2023) was an American collegiate football league player and coach. He served as the head coach at Eastern Kentucky University from 1964 to 2002, compiling a record of 314–124–8. [2]