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MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY COAL CAMPS
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COMPANY |
TOWN or COMMUNITY |
YEARS OF OPERATION |
NO. # EMPLOYED |
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White Oak Cannel Coal Company |
Caney |
1905-1907 |
80 |
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Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Company |
Cannel City |
1905-1933 |
250 |
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Eureka Cannel Coal Company |
Cannel City |
1906-1907 |
25 |
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Kentucky Buck Cannel Coal Company |
Cannel City |
1906-1913 |
250 |
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Caney Cannel Coal Company |
Caney |
1907-1907 |
15 |
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North Fork Cannel Coal Company |
Redwine |
1909-1913 |
28 |
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Lee Coal Company |
Redwine |
1909-1920 |
20 |
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Okey Meadows Mine, Inc. |
Redwine |
1923-1924 |
25 |
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Lenox Bituminous Coal Company |
Lenox |
1919-1921 |
10 |
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Lee Coal Company |
Redwine |
1924-1929 |
40 |
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew, Where the danger is double and pleasures are few, Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines, It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine. ---Merle TravisPhoto courtesy of the Library of Congress
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