Cumberland River

ID: 2543
This file appears in: Wallsend Mine
Cumberland River

This postcard photograph shows Pineville and the Cumberland River in 1930. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Wallsend Mine

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #1272 commemorates Wallsend Coal Mine, the first to begin operation in Bell County. Commercial enterprises expanded in Bell County when the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was extended from Corbin to Pineville in 1888. The…