Ghost Towns in Kentucky
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Barthell
Barthell was the first of 18 coal mining camps built by the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company. The company town was restored as an open-air museum where...
Benham
Benham was built by International Harvester as a model coal company town. Unlike many mining camps, Benham had substantial brick buildings, paved stre...
Blue Heron
Blue Heron (Mine 18) was rebuilt as 'ghost structures'—open-frame metal shells of the original buildings with audio recordings of former residents tel...
Paradise
Paradise was a small coal mining community until Peabody Coal's strip mining operations destroyed it. Residents were forced out, and the town was demo...