Kentucky Coal Heritage
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Donated by the late Howard Shetler, submitted by his granddaughter.
Scuddy Coal Camp on Carr's Fork
Near Hazard, KY 1920's

Tipple No. 4
Van Lear, KY
 


Typical scene in many of the areas of the Virginia Highlands, Eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia.

An early KY coal mine
near Cumberland Gap, TN
 

Donated by the late Howard Shetler, submitted by his granddaughter.
Modern Coal Tipple and Grader,
Near Hazard, KY about 1920's
Donated by the late Howard Shetler, submitted by his granddaughter.
Kentucky's Largest Source of
Electrical Supply. Hazard, KY 1920's
 


Coil Coal Company Mine, Madisonville, KY

Strip Coal Mine, Madisonville, KY
 


Cumberland Mountain, near Middlesboro, KY

Sentry Electric Shovel.  Madisonville, KY
 


Big Sandy River, near Pikeville, KY

Mountaineer's Home in the Elkhorn (KY)
Coal Field of Consolidation Coal Co., Inc.
 


 

 

 

 

 

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