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25 Ιουλ 2023 · This outdoor museum tells the history of the isolated coal mining community through photographs, old structures, and an audio guide made by actual residents. The train depot has craft and gift shops, and your ticket also grants you admission to the nearby McCreary County Museum .
22 Μαΐ 2017 · Stearns sat on the location of the old town of Hemlock, at the crossroads of the Somerset-Jacksboro Road and the east-west road from Williamsburg to Monticello. Today’s McCreary County Museum is located in the 1907 Stearns Coal & Lumber Company office building.
Stearns then acquired 50,000 acres of timberland on the Cumberland Plateau in southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee and then leased another 25,000 acres in Whitley County, Kentucky, where a company store was opened at the newly formed town of Stearns.
28 Οκτ 2009 · It was a state-of-the-art facility when it opened in the late 1930s. The coal was transported to Stearns, a once-booming company town, via the old Kentucky & Tennessee Railroad and then shipped to markets in Cincinnati and Chattanooga.
20 Σεπ 2021 · Jewell Kidd’s Grocery & Deli in Stearns, Kentucky, is a nearly century-old store that recently reopened, offering a nostalgic shopping experience.
Most all of the buildings in Stearns were painted the company's colors of white with green trim, and included residences, a freight depot, office building, pool hall, theater, the renowned Stearns hotel, and company store where all the residents could purchase nearly anything they needed with company issued money called scrip.
12 Δεκ 2023 · History of Stearns, KY. Louisville October 15, 2024. The McCreary Heritage Foundation has been awarded a federal grant worth nearly $5 million. This money will renovate and move the museum into a former coal building known as “Store 1.” (Spectrum News 1/Jonathon Gregg) IN FOCUS.
