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The Harlan County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal industry skirmishes, executions, bombings and strikes (both attempted and realized) that took place in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the 1930s.
Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky.
As reported in a May 23, 2006 story in The Courier-Journal, [2] "Investigator thinks methane to blame for Darby mine explosion," by Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus, at a news conference in Holmes Mill, Kentucky on May 22, 2006, Chuck Wolfe, spokesman for Kentucky's Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet announced that investigators entered the mine for the first time since the explosion on ...
7 Coal mining in Kentucky politics. 8 Coal extraction and remaining reserves by county. ... Harlan County: 917.66 6045.80 Jackson County: 11.31 353.25 Johnson County:
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. ... 2006: Darby Mine disaster in Harlan County kills five miners. On May 20, 2006, ...
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [1] Its county seat is Harlan. [2] It is classified as a moist county—one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
The Battle of Evarts (May 5, 1931) occurred in Harlan, Kentucky during the Harlan County Wars. The coal miners desired improved working conditions, higher wages, and more housing options for their families. [1] These reasons, along with other factors, led the miners to go on strike.
Highsplint is a former coal town with an extinct post office [2] in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.It was named for the High Splint and Seagraves Coal Companies which operated a mine in the town at that time. [3]