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The museum was originally built in 1913 to serve as the Consolidation Coal Company's (Consol) office for Van Lear. Along with Consol's office, the building also contained several businesses and has even housed Van Lear's city hall.
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 ...
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
The garden in the middle of a 35,000-acre former mine is supplying thousands of pounds of fresh produce to families in three counties that have few grocery stores. The garden in the middle of a ...
Aldrich Coal Mine Museum; B. ... Coal Miners' Museum (Van Lear) D. David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum; H. Harrison County History of Coal Museum; K. Kentucky Coal ...
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Pages in category "Mining museums in Kentucky" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Coal Miners' Museum (Van Lear) D. David A. Zegeer Coal ...