Welcome to Boyd County, Kentucky, home of the Judds (the famous mother/daughter Nashville award winning duo). US 23 was named "The Country Music Highway" in 1994 in recognition of the numerous country music stars from the region. In 2002, through . . . — — Map (db m228072) HM
Company F of the 5th Kentucky Infantry was formed on October 22, 1861 from the men of Letcher County and was commanded by Captain Benjamin E. Caudill. The company called themselves “Caudill’s Army" and was nicknamed “The Yahoos.” They disbanded at . . . — — Map (db m90803) HM
Harlan was first called Mount Pleasant. The town is situated in the valley between Big and Little Black Mountain, at the confluence of the three forks of the Upper Cumberland River. It is located at the junctions of two important highways, U.S. . . . — — Map (db m181174) HM
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Two hundred feet west John Boyle built log cabin, 1798, that is still part of home. He and three others, who later set up housekeeping in that cabin, were state legislators and represented the district in Congress 28 years.
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Historian and social critic Harry Monroe Caudill was an eloquent and courageous spokesman for Kentucky's Appalachian region. Subtitled A Biography of a Depressed Area, Caudill's first book, Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1963), . . . — — Map (db m212409) HM
Main Monument, North Side
Dedicated to all Letcher Countians that suffered on the battlefield and homefront during the War Between the States.
President Abraham Lincoln. Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, 1809–1865.
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The Battle of Leatherwood
On October 19, 1962 Captain David J. Claudill, and his men from Company B of the 10th Mounted Rifles were guarding a salt works in Leatherwood, Kentucky. The production of salt was very important to the economy of . . . — — Map (db m304919) HM
In the early 1900s, Jenkins and other coal towns saw an increase in their black populations, as African Americans from the rural South moved to the region seeking work in the coal mines. To segregate the children of these families from the white . . . — — Map (db m212050) HM
Welcome to Pike County, Kentucky, home of Patty Loveless.
US 23 was named “The Country Music Highway” in 1994 in recognition of the numerous country music stars from the region. In 2002 through the efforts of Congressman Harold “Hal” Rogers and . . . — — Map (db m212048) HM
Two gas and coal dust explosions, the first March 9, 1976,
and the second on March 11, 1976, occurred in the Scotia Mine,
Scotia Coal Company, Ovenfork, Letcher County, Kentucky. 15
men working in the 2 Southeast Main area at the time of . . . — — Map (db m297161) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
