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

This is a coal tipple located on Ohio Street in East Elkhorn. (above) Employees of Carson By-Products located on Spruce Pine Island later called Carson Island and Ohio Street in East Elkhorn City. Courtesy of Paul Clynton Mullins. (above) Both above images Are courtesy of Elkhorn City Heritage Council.

The Clinchfield Number One “’Spot” is the oldest regularly scheduled steam engine in the United States. The Number One was originally built by the Logansport, Indiana Shops of the Columbus, Cincinnati and Indiana Central Railroad in April 1882 and was released, with the number #423. It, through various ownerships, became

The following is a transcription of a journal from Lyman C. Draper to the Virginia Historical Register And Literary Companion: Volume V, Number II, in April of 1852. All Spellings and grammar are exactly as originally transcribed and were not altered. The expedition of the Virginians against the Shawanoe Indians,

Alexander Johnson Alexander on the far right (above) Mary Jane Johnson Married to W. B. Johnson.