Hemphill Memorial

Hemphill Coal Mine Memorial Written by Joanna Adams Sergent There is a very quiet place in Letcher County in the Community of Hemphill, Kentucky.   The Monument is a remembrance of all the Letcher County Men who died in the coal mines.  A very moving monument to two coal mining disasters in Letcher County that happened […]

Leonard Henry Banks

The thing that made Mr. Leonard Henry Banks so outstanding was the character of the man that he was. His life was to reverence God and to love and serve his fellow man .

Jenkins History

Jenkins Ky

The town of Jenkins was so picturesque that the “Daily Independent” a newspaper from Ashland Kentucky wrote about lakeside in an editorial “The clubhouse and lakefront look more like a summer resort than a mining camp.”

Jenkins History

The Consolidation Coal Company had purchased 100,000 acres of land, cut off from the rest of the industrial world

David A Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum

Dave Zegeer Museum

We would like to thank: The David A Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum and Eileen Williams Sanders… Without your help none of our work on the History of Jenkins would have been possible. And to Debbie Tuggle for letting us use the brochure she designed for the museum. Situated just off US 23 on the KY VA border is […]

Jenkins History

Raven Rock

The most unique thing about Jenkins Ky is that in January 1910 it did not exist.

Interview with Roy Fleming of McRoberts

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“People in McRoberts stuck together better than in any part of the corporation There’s something about McRoberts that brings people back. I just can’t put my finger on it.”

Interview with R. H. Wassum

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Interview with R. H. Wassum My dad came to Norton after I was born in Norfolk. They brought me to Norton in 1900. I lived in Norton until I was 25. The summer after World War II, they transferred me down to Marshalls Branch and made a portal down there. It was getting so far for the […]

Interview with Mrs. Maude Flint

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Interview with Mrs. Maude Flint. When you moved to McRoberts to Tom Biggs, were people living in the houses on Band Mill Hill? Yes. The upper houses, they never built them until 1927. When you moved back the second time, did you move back to the house you lived in before? No, when we moved back […]

Interview with Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Johnson

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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Johnson Mr. Johnson, when and how did you come to Jenkins? In 1911 — I came to Shelby Gap on the work train and walked on up here. What was the name of the railroad? The SV & E, Sandy Valley and Elkhorn. Did you start working in […]