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Author | : Deborah Adams Cooper |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738587592 |
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Since 1795, when Peter Whitaker built the first known settlement on what is now Linefork Creek, Letcher Countians have demonstrated the perseverance and fortitude for which Appalachian people are known. The majesty of Pine Mountain in the south of the county or the rare beauty of old-growth forests that became Lilley Cornett Woods must have brought Daniel Boone to seek a paradise in "Kanta-ke." Whitesburg and Letcher County have seen their resources of timber, oil, and coal bring growth, as well as decline. With the rise of the coal industry before World War I came a steady flow of Eastern European immigrants who contributed a new and exciting perspective on life, business, and art. It was Italian stonemason John Palumbo Sr. who led other Italians to Whitesburg because the beauty of it reminded him of his home in the Campania region of Southern Italy. The churches, homes, and buildings they established stand in homage to their energy and skill.
Author | : Letcher County Historical and Genealogical Society (Ky.) |
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Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1994* |
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Genre | : Letcher County (Ky.) |
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Author | : Harry M. Claudill |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786252007 |
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“At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.
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Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Birds |
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Author | : Homer Banks |
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Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 1987* |
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Author | : USA House of Representatives |
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Total Pages | : 1476 |
Release | : 1870 |
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Fess Whitaker |
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Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Appalachians (People) |
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18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster.
Author | : William Elsey Connelley |
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Total Pages | : 918 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : History |
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