Early Coalmine

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This file appears in: Early Settler

When industrial coalmining came to the mountains of southeast Kentucky in the last half of the 19th century it brought well paying but unsteady and hazardous jobs. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Early Settler

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1700 in Letcher County notes where one of the region’s first pioneers, Archelous Craft, initially settled. Although the southeastern part of Kentucky saw the earliest exploration…