Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Company.
Organization
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Ohio and Kentucky Railway Company Records
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0033 SAA 031
Abstract
The Ohio and Kentucky Railway was created and owned by the Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Company, a corporation that had leased about 5400 acres of cannel coal land adjacent to Caney, Morgan County (Kentucky). Construction of the railroad began in 1899 at the O. & K. Junction, one mile west of Jackson in Breathitt County, and continuing 26 miles to Cannel City in Morgan County, completion of this section being accomplished in 1901. Both freight and passenger runs were made, as well as...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1900