Coal Camps Morgan County, Kentucky KYGenWeb

MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY COAL CAMPS

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 Travis

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress

COMPANY	TOWN or COMMUNITY	YEARS OF OPERATION	NO. # EMPLOYED
White Oak Cannel Coal Company	Caney	1905-1907	80
Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Company	Cannel City	1905-1933	250
Eureka Cannel Coal Company	Cannel City	1906-1907	25
Kentucky Buck Cannel Coal Company	Cannel City	1906-1913	250
Caney Cannel Coal Company	Caney	1907-1907	15
North Fork Cannel Coal Company	Redwine	1909-1913	28
Lee Coal Company	Redwine	1909-1920	20
Okey Meadows Mine, Inc.	Redwine	1923-1924	25
Lenox Bituminous Coal Company	Lenox	1919-1921	10
Lee Coal Company	Redwine	1924-1929	40

Courtesy of Ann Lemaster-Applegate