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The Leonard mining town, and Leonard railway station, were just downstream of the mouth of Lower Second Creek, 8 miles (13 km) from Hazard by rail. [12] The Butterfly post office was established on 1920-05-04 by postmaster Ollie Clay Day, who was the mining company's bookkeeper. [12]
Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired ...
Hazard is a home rule-class city [5] in, and the county seat of, Perry County, Kentucky, United States. [6] The population was 5,263 at the 2020 census. [7] History
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left ... a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of the 153 men ...
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.
The 2019 Harlan County coal miners' protest was a labor protest held by dozens of coal miners in Cumberland, Kentucky.The causes of the protest stemmed from the 2019 bankruptcy of Blackjewel Coal, a coal mining company that operated a mine in the county.
The 2019 Harlan County coal miners' protest was a labor protest held by dozens of coal miners in Cumberland, Kentucky.The causes of the protest stemmed from the 2019 bankruptcy of Blackjewel Coal, a coal mining company that operated a mine in the county.
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.