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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 ...
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1895 – The Rotunda, University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1897 – Fire at the Bazar de la Charité , Paris, France on 4 May, killed 126, mostly women. 1899 – Windsor Hotel East 47th Street/5th Avenue Manhattan , New York —at least 33 and possibly 45 people killed (estimates vary).
Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two most populous cities, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor-alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in Louisville ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Kentucky designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
3 deaths – See section on this tornado – Path paralleled that of an EF4 tornado in 2011 that affected nearby Cordova. F3: S of Ellisburg to NE of Danville: Casey, Lincoln, Boyle: KY: 23:35 21.1 miles (34.0 km) 1 death – Over 100 homes were heavily damaged or destroyed in Junction City. Damage figures were estimated at $5 million in ...
Death Toll: 6,000–12,000. ... The city of New Orleans was ill-prepared for 157+ mph winds, and the levees failed, which caused widespread flooding. ... Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. It ...
Volunteers and city workers try to reconnect the water supply to a nursing home in Elkhorn City, Ky., on Friday, July 29, 2022. The pipe, along with some of KY-197, washed away yesterday when the ...