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PLACES:  Birth of Fleming, Letcher, Kentucky

PLACES: Birth of Fleming, Letcher, Kentucky

A scrapbook of glass-plate photos of the construction of Fleming and opening of the Elkhorn Coal Corporation mines, taken 1913-1914.


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1
Municipal Building and Bank, McRoberts, Kentucky
 
 
2
Houses on East Wright St., Fleming, Ky.
 
 
3
Work on Company Store at Fleming, Ky.
 
 
4
Substation and transmission line, Mine No. 301, Fleming
 
 
5
Work on Mine No. 302, Bottom Branch, near Fleming
 
 
6
First carload of coal from Mine No. 301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
7
Cut for Mine #301 Siding, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
8
Power substation, Fleming, Ky. area
 
 
9
Moving Dinkey Engine through Fleming
 
 
10
Substation, Mines No. 305 and 306
 
 
11
Beginning of work on Bottom Branch for Mine #302, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
12
No. 1 Right off Gap Heading Mine #301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
13
Blasting out rock at Fleming
 
 
14
Tipple, Mine #301. Looking up chute from center of verticle curve.
 
 
15
Substation 303 Mine
 
 
16
Location of Mine #303, Looking Down Towards Potter's Fork
 
 
17
Main Entry. Mine #302, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
18
Mine #301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
19
Eight-room houses in Upper Fleming, Ky.
 
 
20
Construction of Eight-room Houses
 
 
21
Location for Tipple No. 303, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
22
View of Potter's Fork Extension of Fleming, Ky.
 
 
23
Four Room Houses, Fleming. Ky.
 
 
24
Logging on Potter's Fork, near Fleming, Ky.
 
 
25
View of Potter's Fork Looking Up from Ramey's Fork
 
 
26
Timber cut on Potter's Fork.
 
 
27
View of Miine #303, Potter's Fork
 
 
28
West Fleming, Ky.
 
 
29
Tipple Location, Mine #301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
30
Fleming, Ky. Store Foundation and Site of Office Buillding.
 
 
31
Location for Tipple No. 304 Fleming, Ky.
 
 
32
Construction of Substation for Mine 301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
33
View of Lower Fleming, Ky.
 
 
34
Unidentified location, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
35
View of Central and Upper Fleming, Ky.
 
 
36
Unidentified mine opening, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
37
View of Main Drift Mouth and Coal Pile, Mine No. 301.
 
 
38
Unidentified railbed, Fleming, Ky. area.
 
 
39
Loading Storage Pile in Railroad Cars Mine No.301
1753 tons net 
 
40
Housing on East Wright St. Fleming, Ky.
 
 
41
___ble Entry and Coal ___, Mine No. 301
 
 
42
Constructing incline and Temp. Coal Chute. For Mine #301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
43
Loading a Shot on Cut for Road on Fleming Gap
 
 
44
Opening of Mine 301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
45
Mine and Tipple No. 303, Elk Horn Coal
 
 
46
Sub-station and Transmission Line of Mine. No. 301, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
47
View Showing Coal Storage #305 and 306 Mines
 
 
48
Chimney Butts in Upper Fleming, Ky.
 
 
49
Coal Storage and Tipple, #302 Mine
 
 
50
Eight Room Houses on Wright Street, Fleming, Ky.
 
 
51
Unidentified view, Fleming, Ky. area
 
 
52
View of lower Fleming, Ky.
 
 
53
Work on Siding for Mine #301, Fleming, Ky,
 
 
54
Presentation Plate
 
 
55
Making Location for Mine Opening. Mineral Fuel Corp.
 
 
56
Lower Fleming ___ Work on Streets
 
 
57
Unidentied 5-foot Mine Seam, Fleming, KY area
 
 
58
Starting Opening of Mine No. 302