Corrigan / McKinney Steel Company

Lancer Lester and his sister Lennie Lester Damron, Photo provided by Mary Lou Kendrick Annual KY Mine Report 1922 (above)

Courtesy of John Doug Hays' Collection Courtesy of John Doug Hays' Collection Courtesy of John Doug Hays' Collection Courtesy of John Doug Hays' Collection Courtesy of John Doug Hays' Collection

Postmarked Hellier, Kentucky July 19th, 1911. Boardinghouse.

Corrigan / McKinney Steel Company McKinney Steel Co Incorporated, Located on Marrowbone Creek. McKinney Steel Co Incorporated, Located on Marrowbone Creek.

Photo courtesy of Red Robin Stone Heritage Archives. Photo courtesy of Red Robin Stone Heritage Archives. Photo courtesy of Red Robin Stone Heritage Archives. Photo courtesy of Red Robin Stone Heritage Archives.

Lower Elk Creek School House, June 4th, 1915

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)

Henry Ford’s Gift to the Miners of Stone Kentucky: Fordson Coal Company.

Southern Bible Institute 1950. The Torch Yearbook Collection. (above) Marrowbone Missionary Baptist Church 1073 (above)

Goody (formerly Leckieville) is located in the bottom-left corner of the photo above. Above is Pond Creek By-Products Colliery, a N&W Railway Company located above Leckieville.

Photos curtesy of Daniel Childers. Above is a train wreck at Hellier KY in 1911. Above is a picture looking up the street of Titanic and Noah Ark Constitution; these buildings were made up of 30 combined homes on the right, and 31 combined homes on the left. This is Edgewater KY, about 1 mile…

Above is the Elswick Hotel in Elkhorn City. Special thanks to Roy Owens. Above is a sawmill that sat on the Mill-Race Point in Praise KY. The steam hoist behind pulled logs out of the Russel Fork River. Special thanks to Roy Owens. Above is a town map of Elkhorn City from 1924. Special thanks…

Superintendent’s Residence, Pond Creek Coal Company. 1930?

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Rogers Elkhorn Virgie Photos Virgie Photos Myra just above Virgie

A. R. Crandall Photo 1883 – Taken while working with the KY Geological Survey. March 5th 1825 James Honaker

MOSSY BOTTOM, KENTUCKY

SHELBYARD, PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY

KEWANEE, KENTUCKY Kewanee Coal Co. would later be known as Kewanee Coal Mining Company, headquartered in Pikeville, Kentucky. The little mining community of Kewanee had its very Post Office and Railroad Station. Its President and General Manager was listed as O.P. Chatfield according to the Department of Inspection Mine Report of 1912.  Mont Williamson was…

BIG SHOAL, KENTUCKY James Hatcher Birthday Party The entire population of Big Shoal, Kentucky, turned out for “Uncle Jim” Hatcher’s birthday party on September 22nd, 1919, in front of the company store. The party was attended by many of Hatcher’s Floyd County friends and relatives. Hatcher can be seen in the center of the group…