World's Largest Coal Camp: world record in Lynch, Kentucky

World's Largest Coal Camp: world record in Lynch, Kentucky

Lynch, Kentucky, United States--In 1917 the U.S. Coal & Coke Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, built the community of Lynch, Kentucky, on part of the 19,000 acres the company had purchased in the southeastern tip of Harlan County, near the Virginia border; the camp's population peaked at about 10,000...

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