A stronglabour uniontradition exists in the towns along theOhio River, and theUnited Mine Workers of America(UMWA) is influential in the coal regions. Early struggles between the UMWA and coal operators in eastern Kentucky gave rise to tragic violence. The city and county ofHarlanwere the site...
(as Harrodstown) near the head ofSalt RiverbyJames Harrodand a party of 37 men in 1774. Other settlers also founded towns, and before long they began to call for separation of the judicial district of Kentucky from Virginia. Although statehood conventions atDanvillein the 1780s were ...
Chesapeake & Ohio in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky -Mines - Towns - Trains by Thomas W. Dixon Jr.112 pages, 165 illustrations. A new look at mines, towns, trains, people that were involved in transportation of coal from mine to market on C&O in the period 1945-1960....
inversions and other meteorological conditions could lead to unhealthy concentrations in the nearby towns.Variation in gas temperatures, nearly 300 掳C during the January visit to the fire versus < 50 掳C in May, demonstrates the large temporal variability in fire intensity at the Tiptop mine. Th...
Map shows counties, roads, railroads, cities, towns, villages, post offices, and railroad depots; also canals on verso; roads and railroads for Cleveland a... OW Gray 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Local-scale turnpike roads in nineteenth-century Kentucky This essay will examine, through a Kentucky ca...
The Tiptop coal mine fire, Kentucky: preliminary investigation of the mea- surement of mercury and other hazardous gases from coal-fire gas vents. Int. J. Coal Geol. 80, 63e67.Hower, J., Henke, K., O'Keefe, J., Engle, M., Blake, D., Stracher, G., 2009. The Tiptop coal- ...
The 1966 sale of the town to Island Creek Coal Company signaled the beginning of a period of marked decline for the town, an almost inevitable bust of the "boom and bust cycle" so common in towns dependent on extractive industries for their survival. The town still exists, but the ...
A stronglabour uniontradition exists in the towns along theOhio River, and theUnited Mine Workers of America(UMWA) is influential in the coal regions. Early struggles between the UMWA and coal operators in eastern Kentucky gave rise to tragic violence. The city and county ofHarlanwere the site...