Blue Heron Coal Mining Camp
Blue Heron Coal Mining Camp
History Museum · McCreary County, Kentucky
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Blue Heron, also known as Mine 18, is a former coal mining community or coal town on the banks of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States, that has been recreated and is maintained as an interpretive history area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Blue Heron was operated as a company town of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company.
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This National Park site was definitely at the end of the road and remote, with few visitors the day we were there, but well worth it! I learned a lot about the personal lives of residents in a comp...
The exhibits did a great job showing different aspects of life in a rural mining community. The oral histories added so much to the experience. If possible, visit on a day the interpretive center is o
I've visited decades ago when the kids were very young and they wanted to return. Grandparents are long gone but this place is a part of their childhood. Spending time here should give everyone a se..