Majestic Tipple (above) Majestic Tipple Side Track, Looking Down Stream (above) Majestic Tipple Crew (above) Majestic Collieries Co. 1960 Mine Map (above) Majestic Collieries Co. 1952 Mine Map (above)

Store and Office Building, Plant No.1, Freeburn, Portsmouth By-Product Coke Company. (above)

Photos in Memory of Marvin, Bruce, and Paul Hopkins. Here is a link to an article about an employee who worked for Republic Steel for 32 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/02/19/miners-we-are-fighting-for-survival/a1c14874-da07-4468-ba40-1ec7c32a507c/ Here is a link to a piece about an employee of Republic Steel: http://www.potterflats.com/coalmine.html Here is a link to a court case,

The healer, most of the time women, sometimes called a granny witch. He or she, doesn’t use magic as in pulling a rabbit out of a hat, waving a wand while repeating the words hocus pocus. And not in the sense of a magic show by Harry Houdini, in some Las Vegas

Throughout the Early Industrial Appalachian History, oil and natural gas has provided a lot of jobs and income over the last 45 years. The below pictures provide an answer to how they moved the spud drilling rigs throughout Eastern Kentucky including Pike County. Moving of these rigs were very labor

        General William T. Sherman had given implied approval for General William Nelson to organize a force to drive Confederates under Colonel John S. Williams from eastern Kentucky.  Nelson’s force had marched south from the fairgrounds south of Maysville and met the State Road east of Mount Sterling.  They had followed that route