| I am from Eastern KY and have some additional things y'all may find interesting... Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had a lot of conveniences. See two PDFs in my drive for articles on each of these subjects from a trade publication called The Black Diamond https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4... Coal mining funded everything in Eastern KY and you can learn more about "coal camps" and the history at https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm The Pikeville cut-through was the second largest earth moving project in the western hemisphere -- behind the Panama Canal -- until the big dig in Boston. Still in the top 3! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through We have the grand canyon of the south at breaks interstate park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park Home to one of the most famous feuds ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud We have our fair share of superfund sites... couple are interesting: We had a huge superfund site as famous as love canal... "Valley of the Drums" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums We have a nuclear waste dump that had / has plutonium disposed there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats Full list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Ken... |