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Blue Heron, also known as Mine 18, is a former coal mining community or coal town on the banks of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States, that has been recreated and is maintained as an interpretive history area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.
In 1937, Blue Heron Mining Camp was opened; K&T built a one-mile spur to the camp, crossing Roaring Paunch Creek. The bridge that was used to cross the creek was bought from New York Central Railroad (NYCRR) in 1936. K&T line builders needed a bridge to curve around to the right to meet the spur.
Coal mined from Mine No. 2 was then sent to the tipple at Mine No. 18 at the Blue Heron Mining complex. The dismantling of the coal camp began in 1952 and was completed in 1961. [3] In 1984, the Barthell coal camp was purchased by the Koger family, who invested more than $500,000 of their own money into the revitalization of the community.
B. Balls Fork; Banner Fork Coal Company, Kentucky; Bardo, Kentucky; Barren Fork Coal Camp and Mine Archeological District; Barthell, Kentucky; Barwick, Kentucky
Included in the museum's collection are photographs of historic and modern coal mining, actual tools and other artifacts used by railroads and mines, and scrip formerly used in the company stores. All of the exhibits illustrate the history of Jenkins and the Consolidation Coal Company ., [ 2 ] and many of the exhibited items belong to local ...
The Sheltowee Trace Trail is a 343-mile (552.00 km) [1] National Recreation Trail that was created in 1979 and stretches from the Burnt Mill Bridge Trail Head in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Tennessee) to northern Rowan County, Kentucky
Coal mining tools. Veteran's Wall of Fame. A documentary of Van Lear during the 1930s. Model of Van Lear. Displays showing the community during the boom years. Icky's 1950s soda fountain. Replica of the old post office. Replica of the old doctor's office. [2]
The Big Sandy Heritage Center Museum is located in Pikeville, Kentucky.The museum was housed in the old Chesapeake and Ohio Depot until 2015, when it moved to the 4th floor of the Judicial Annex in downtown Pikeville.