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Jenkins is located in eastern Letcher County at (37.179914, -82.632148 Its southern border is the Kentucky–Virginia state line, following the crest of Pine Mountain. U.S. Route 23 passes through Jenkins, leading north 29 miles (47 km) to Pikeville and south over Pine Mountain 21 miles (34 km) to Norton, Virginia.
The David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum is a local history museum located at 102 Main Street in Jenkins, Kentucky, across from the former Jenkins High School. The museum was dedicated on May 9, 1998. [1] The museum is housed in an authentically restored, 1911 train station which it shares with a bank.
The western portion of the county is drained by Elkhorn Creek, which flows from its start near Jenkins, Kentucky, to its confluence with Russell Fork in Pike County, Kentucky. [ 20 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 339 square miles (880 km 2 ), of which 338 square miles (880 km 2 ) is land and 1.1 ...
Jenkins School, at 75 Pane St. in Jenkins, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [citation needed]It was deemed notable "as the largest and finest school to be produced as part of the efforts by Consolidation Coal Company to develop Jenkins, a coal camp, in the coal rich mountains of eastern Kentucky.
The Bloom Elementary School at 1627 Lucia Ave. in Louisville, Ky. on July 10, 2023. The district's second-oldest school is in Louisville's Tyler Park neighborhood along Lucia Avenue.
On November 30, 1927, Leonard Woods, a black coal miner and resident of Jenkins, Kentucky, was lynched on the Virginia-Kentucky border at Pound Gap. Woods had been jailed in Kentucky for the murder of 29-year-old Herschel Deaton of Coeburn, Virginia, following an altercation on November 27. On the night of the lynching, a crowd estimated ...
The Choctaw Academy dormitory building in Scott County, Ky., stands Thursday, February 1, 2024. Established in 1825, the academy was the first federally controlled residential/boarding school for ...
The Kentucky Dirt Diggers Facebook page has more than 2,300 members who collaborate on the best ways to hunt for treasure and unearth history. Modern day treasure hunters: This group of ...