J. B. ELKHORN COAL COMPANY, Douglas, Hildason, Ky.(Mine No. 2.)Geo. A. Clutts, Superintendent; J. N. Woolum, Mine Foreman. Located on the S. V. & E. Railway. Operating the lower Elkhorn seam, 54 inches. Employing about 65 men. Electric equipment. Visited January 9, 1922. Found in fair condition. This report was

USGS TOPO MAP / DORTON 1954 Esco Railroad Siding and Tipple ESCO MINE CAR DISASTER Dec. 5, 1929 2 MEN KILLED, 2 HURT IN MINE INCLINE CRASH _______________ HATTON BURKE, SEEKING JOB, IS VICTIM AS CAR RUNS WILD _______________ TAN BRANHAM DIES AT HOSPITAL HERE _______________ OTHERS JUMP TO SAFETY

Tickets from a time when one of these would allow you to ride the rails from Jenkins down the length of the Big Sandy valley to Ashland.  (Courtesy of Anthony Hawkins)

 A 1905-memo book from Bud Williamson’s General Merchandise Store at Piso, Kentucky.  The pencil notations tell us that not only was Williamson a dry goods merchant, but he also dabbled in the timber business.  With no calculators or computers, a blank memo book from a vendor, a lead pencil, and

When The World Was Flat More than sixty years have passed, but the memory lingers, indelible as a bottle of blue ink spilled on a 5-cent pack of Lucky Star writing paper.  I remember the blackboard, the pull-down map of the world, a frieze of paper cardinals, listing ships and crooked

The Fodder Shock Hideaway, Gus’s Last Dream

Big Andy’s Last Harvest.