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Harlan is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. [3] The population was 1,745 at the 2010 census, [4] down from 2,081 at the 2000 census. Harlan is one of three Kentucky county seats to share its name with its county, the others being Greenup and Henderson.
Location of Harlan County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Harlan County, Kentucky. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude ...
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [1] Its county seat is Harlan. [2] It is classified as a moist county—one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Harlan County, Kentucky" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Downtown Harlan served as the social, civic, and economic center of the Harlan County mining community, particularly during the mining boom of the 1920s, and the courthouse became the site of several murder trials and legal battles during the Harlan County War. [2] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 20 ...
Here’s a look at some of the worst coal disasters in Kentucky history. 1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster County kills 62 men ... On May 20, 2006, an explosion at Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan ...
Pine Mountain school was the headquarters for the pack horse library in Harlan County, which had been opened up by 1937. [14] [39] The supervisor of the library in Harlan County was Ann Richards, a WPA employee. [40] In 1936, the WPA began planning to open a pack horse library in Somerset, Kentucky. [41]
The Harlan County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal industry skirmishes, executions, bombings and strikes (both attempted and realized) that took place in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the 1930s.