Children on Playground
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When miners came to the coal towns their families followed. Some coal companies provided amenities such as schools, theaters, hospitals, and church buildings to accommodate their workers. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Lynch Colored School
Lynch Colored School
Historical Marker #2109 in Lynch, Kentucky (Harlan County) commemorates the history of the Lynch Colored School, a segregation-era school that educated the community's African American students.
When the coal boom hit eastern Kentucky in the…