Appalachia’s Coal Miners Killed on the Job By Tabitha Wallen Something near and dear to my heart, a part of my very soul, are coal miners. My dad worked for McCoy Labs in Pikeville, testing water and soil samples on mining sites. His father drove a coal truck for the better part of thirty years….

Hendrix Mine In The Making Artist’s Conception of Hendrix Preparation Plant and Facilities. In order to maintain the required production of Cavalier Coal, Consol is planning to open a new mine on Rockhouse Creek near Deane, Kentucky. This mine will be known as Hendrix Mine named in honor of Arthur Ray Hendrix, first Consol (Ky.)…

Joseph Bouney – S35,782 Service; Virginia Revolutionary Claim Act March 18, 1818 Kentucky Joseph Bouney of Floyd County in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phebicker [Col. Christian Febiger] of the Virginia Line, for the term of __. Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate…

Camp Brownlow, April 13, 1862 Apr. 30, 1862, The Marysville Tribune (40th Ohio, Piketon, Buchanan)Letter from a Soldier in the 40th Regiment – The following letter from G. P. Robinson to his father, A. R. Robinson of Darby Township, has been handed us for publication. It will be found to contain some items of interest….

PIKEVILLE NATIONAL BANK-THE FIRST 79 YEARS October 9, 1930. Pike County News Pikeville National Bank, Main Street Front. From the Wellman Collection

Bessie Arnold Riddle / Pike County Clerk Paschal Fields Service Station Halls Cash Store

INTRODUCTION The Civil War had its roots in animosity, antagonism— call it what you may.  Peace officially came April 1865, but that did not mean that good will and brotherhood were part of the package.  This was especially true along the Big Sandy.  Lawsuits were the order of the day.  Legal complaints were being signed almost as soon as…

During the five months prior to the official establishment of Bourbon County in May 1786, there had been a flurry of activity by fifty or more men in the Fayette land office to make over ninety entries for land in and adjoining the Big Sandy Valley 85 Eleven years later, in May 1797, five entries…

From the end of October 1861 forward, there was no civil rule in Pike County. The military occupations of Pikeville, first by Colonel John S. Williams’ Confederates, followed by General William “Bull” Nelson’s Union army, compounded by the January 1862 murder of Judge William Cecil, made every man a law unto himself. Many ministers had…