BROOKSIDE-AGES, KY - coalcampusa.com
This picture of Brookside is one of the most famous Appalachian coal camp photos of all time. These houses were still owned by the coal company and rented to their miners in 1973. Although America had sent men to the moon by then, these homes had no running water.
The Brookside Mine – 1974 - Facing South
In July, 1973, 180 miners went out on strike against the Eastover Mining Company’s Brookside mine in Harlan County, Kentucky. Pay is not as bad as it was in the 1930’s in the strife-torn area, but conditions in the mine and mine camp resemble those described in a …
19 Photos of Kentucky Coal Camps During the 1930s and 1940s
2023年4月18日 · Kentucky coal mines in the 1930s, for the most part, had a community pump for running water, schoolhouses, stores, and rudimentary housing in the coal mining camps. They lived in more shacks than homes, lacking running water and some lacking power.
AGES-BROOKSIDE-KY - RootsWeb
Brookside was owned by Harlan Collieries Coal Company and considered a mining camp. Ages land was owned primary by private families. The Nolan's, Harrisons, Deans, Risner, Balls, Lewis, Boggs, Huffs, Saylors, Brocks, Napiers, Owens, Lasley, Spurlocks, Laningham, Skidmore.
Kentucky Coal Heritage - Harlan County, Kentucky Coal Camps
COMPANY: COMMUNITY: COUNTY: YEARS OF OPERATION: EMPLOYEES: Ages Ridge Coal Company: Ages: Harlan: 1914-1915: 75: East Harlan Coal Company: Ages: Harlan: 1916-1932: ...
Burning Up People to Make Electricity - The Atlantic
1974年7月1日 · On the way back to the Mount Aire at the end of the day, we pass back through Brookside with its deteriorating mining-camp houses along the stinking Clear Fork River.
Brookside, Kentucky - Wikipedia
Brookside is an unincorporated community and coal town in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. A post office called Brookside was established in 1930, and the name was changed to Ages-Brookside in 1975.