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The Coal Miners' Museum is a museum in Van Lear, Kentucky, dedicated to the area's coal mining history. The museum is administered by the Van Lear Historical Society. [1]
Since the end of local mining, only a handful of businesses continue to operate in the Van Lear area, including a bookstore, Icky's 1950s Snack Shop (located inside the Coal Miners' Museum), Mine number 5 store/Webb's store, (owned by Loretta (Webb) Lynn's family) and Blood Moon Security Solutions, a private security company.
Butcher Hollow is not an independent town or village in its own right. Currently, Van Lear is an unincorporated community. There are no deep mines operating in Van Lear proper, although some mines operate nearby. Most of the residents work in locations outside Van Lear, including the nearby cities of Paintsville, Prestonsburg, and Pikeville ...
Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum.
Barthell Coal Mining Camp: Whitley City: McCreary: South Central Kentucky: Mining: Open-air museum includes museum, barber shop, bath house, doctor's office, machine shop, mining motor displays, school/church house, 1890s reconstructed log cabin and mine tour Behringer-Crawford Museum: Covington: Kenton: Northern Kentucky: Local history
Coal Miners' Museum (Van Lear) D. David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum; H. Harrison County History of Coal Museum; K. Kentucky Coal Museum; L. Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour
That's the aim of a new effort announced this past Wednesday—Juneteenth—by the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, located in Matewan, Mingo County. The heart of the state's southern coal ...
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.