Whitley City is the county seat for McCreary County
Stearns is in McCreary County
McCreary County(8) ► ADJACENT TO MCCREARY COUNTY Laurel County(41) ► Pulaski County(55) ► Wayne County(20) ► Whitley County(15) ► Campbell County, Tennessee(15) ► Scott County, Tennessee(5) ►
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Over one hundred years ago, in 1902, Justus S. Stearns of Ludington, Michigan bought 30,000 acres of virgin timberland in Southern Kentucky. When coal was discovered soon afterwards, the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company was in business. The company . . . — — Map (db m233171) HM
Burial site of daughter of Chief Doublehead. Legend is that as a young girl she accompanied her father at signing of Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, 1775, transferring Cherokees' land between Ohio and Cumberland rivers to Transylvania Society. As'Quaw . . . — — Map (db m73737) HM
In 1989 a surface-mining company in Tennessee unearthed this stump buried 30 feet underground. The two-ton stump measures 15 feet in circumference and almost 6 feet in diameter. Geologists from the University of Kentucky indicate this is not a . . . — — Map (db m233172) HM
In 1902, Justus S. Stearns of Ludington, Michigan bought 30,000 acres of virgin timberland in southern Kentucky. When coal was discovered soon afterwards, the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company was established. The company built the town of Stearns to . . . — — Map (db m233173) HM
