Towns and Nature: Lynch, KY: Portal 31 Coal Mine

 · A few miles west in Benham is the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum. Posted by Dennis DeBruler at 9:24 PM . Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest. Labels: energyCoal, museum, rrLaN. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Search This Blog. Subscribe To. Posts Comments Labels. .

Kentucky Coal Mining Museum switches to solar power ...

 · Mining equipment decorates its walls, while a twoton block of coal at the front door greets visitors. Children can climb on the museum's 1940s model electric locomotive that once carried Kentucky ...

Former coal mining towns turn to tourism ...

 · CUMBERLAND, Ky. — The same Main Street winds through the old mountain mining towns of Cumberland, Benham and Lynch, crosses a river and runs alongside a creek. The early 20th century coal mining ...

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Harlan County Ghost Hunters

An upside down cross on a tree in a local cemetery. The Harlan County Ghost Hunters take this attack against the souls resting here personally and seriously. We also know who the culprit of the things done here is and he will be dealt with by a court of law in a complete legal fashion. The graves here have been desecrated by remains being ...

Coal

Coal Mines and Mining . Cabinet image showing the outside of a coal mining company with tracks, tipple and coal chute; please help identify the mine in this photograph, send information using the feedback button or by calling .

Opinion | Coal Museum Sees the Future; Trump Doesn't

 · "The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, ... The coal mining museum is going solar, for solid economic reasons, and President Trump is reviving coal, with no economic logic at all.

Beyond Coal: Imagining Appalachia's Future

 · Benham was built a century ago as a coal mining camp by a subsidiary of International Harvester, which mined the nearby hillsides, extracting coal to make steel. Today, the signs of coal's ...

Trump, Congress must stand by coal communities

 · Most recently, the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham announced it will be placing solar panels on its roof in order to cut down on its .

Pew Trusts: Former Kentucky mining towns embrace change ...

 · Kentucky's TriCities are trying to take advantage of what they've got. The Kentucky Coal Museum is in the former company store in Benham. The Benham Schoolhouse Inn — .

Kentucky Museums by Region page 1 of 9 Name Loion ...

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The Business Side of Green: Kentucky Coal Mining

 · The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is switching to a new form of energy solar power. The museum in Benham began installing the solar panels on Tuesday, WYMT reported. Brandon Robinson, the museum's communiions director, said the goal is to save money in the long run. "We believe that this project will help save at least 8,000 to 10,000 off ...

Kentucky Coal Mining Museum converts to solar power

 · Kentucky Coal Mining Museum converts to solar power. An unlikely building is switching to solar powered energy. The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham is owned by Southeast Kentucky Community ...

Coal May Still be King, But Solar is Where The Power Is ...

 · Yesterday was one of those days, when I saw the delightful story that The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, Kentucky, flipped the switch yesterday on a solar array to keep the lights on and, more importantly, to save money. In a world where President Donald J. Trump has promised to bring coal jobs back to the United States (spoiler alert: He can't – even the mine owners say so), the ...

Mine Portal 31 Lynch, Kentucky

Tour Information. "Portal 31 has resumed normal operational hours and is providing tours." Loed in. Harlan County, Lynch, Kentucky. Built By: United States Coal .

 · Benham, formerly a coal camp, is currently involved in community revitalization. Includes an overview, activities, an online store, photos, and information about the coal mining museum.

Van Lear Historical Society Inc. | Home of the Coal Miners ...

Van Lear, Kentucky, was incorporated in 1912 in Johnson County. Named for Van Lear Black, a director of Consolidation Coal Company, the town owes its existence to the entrepreneurial efforts of John Caldwell Calhoun Mayo, born in Pike County, Kentucky, who taught in a oneroom school near the confluence of Miller's Creek and Sorghum Hollow. Mayo bought coal rights to lands along Miller's ...

Mining Tourism

Kentucky Coal Museum Benham, Kentucky Phone: (606) . Lackawanna Coal Mine McDade Park Bald Mountain Road Scranton, PA 18504 Phone: (800) or (570) . Mining History Association 323 Daniels Place Canon City, Co 81212. Museum of Anthracite Mining 17th and Pine Streets Ashland, PA 17921 Schuylkill County

The Avery Review | Making Coal Historical (a Road Trip)

Models of extraction infrastructures at the Kentucky Coal Museum in Benham, Kentucky. A few minutes up the Looney Creek is Lynch, named for the head of the US Coke and Coal Company when the camp was laid out in 1917. Lynch is the home to Portal 31, the most Epcotted of the Appalachian exhibition coal mines. I show up for the last tour of the day and I'm the only one there, which has to .

Jenkins Coal Museum in Jenkins, KY with Reviews

Kentucky Coal Mining Museum. Museums Places Of Interest Tourist Information Attractions. Website (606) . Main St. Benham, KY 40807. From Business: Visitors to this specialinterest museum can see many aspects of coal mining activities, including floor plans of typical underground mining operations. 4.