Surveyor's Compass

ID: 929
This file appears in: Jenkins
Surveyor's Compass

This compass was used by Clay Williamson to survey lands in eastern Kentucky counties. Williamson often worked for coal baron John C.C. Mayo. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Jenkins

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1804 in Jenkins notes the history of this Letcher County coal town. In the last decade of the 19th century coal production by industrial companies began in earnest. A rapidly industrializing United States needed a fuel source…