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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.
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.
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.
The 55-year-old David Sanford, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was the only death in the crash, said Philip Bianchi, the Harlan County coroner. Sanford would routinely fly into Harlan and Middlesboro to ...
Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky.
On Oct. 11, 2000, a spill from a Martin County Coal Corp. waste containment pond polluted more than 100 miles of creeks, streams and rivers running through Kentucky and West Virginia.
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.
Leslie County: 131: Hyden: 1878: Clay County, Harlan County and Perry County: Preston Leslie, twenty-sixth Governor of Kentucky (1871–75) 9,864: 404 sq mi (1,046 km 2) Letcher County: 133: Whitesburg: 1842: Perry County and Harlan County: Robert P. Letcher, fifteenth Governor of Kentucky (1840–44) 20,423: 339 sq mi (878 km 2) Lewis County ...