Entries Containing All of the Phrases «mccreary county» AND «kentucky»

By Tom Bosse, September 15, 2023

Historic Stearns Kentucky Marker

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1 ► Kentucky, McCreary County, Stearns — Historic Stearns Kentucky —

On Henderson Street at Golf Course Road, on the left when traveling east on Henderson Street.

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

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2 ► Kentucky, McCreary County, Stearns — Sandstone Tree Stump —

On Henderson Street at Golf Course Road, on the left when traveling east on Henderson Street.

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

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