Railroad

ID: 3137
This file appears in: Edward "Eddie" Ward

Before entering the military service, Ward worked on the railroad in McCreary County. Many of the county’s railroads were used to transport coal.
Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society

This file appears in: Edward "Eddie" Ward

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2300 in Pine Knot remembers Corporal Edward Ward, the first US soldier named to the military’s new aviation program in 1907. To say that the US military was intrigued with the…