The Ghostly Ruins Of An Abandoned Appalachia Coal Mining Town - Lynch, KENTUCKY
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- I visited Lynch, Kentucky, once among the most prosperous coal mining towns in the world. After the early 1940's, the coal mining company U.S. Coal & Coke abandoned the area and now only a few hundred people remain. Many of the support structures for the mine remains, however, in some of the most beautiful ruins that I've ever seen.
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Amen. I agree on all points.
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I have
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But why, are you fascinated by something particular?
Same! When I'm not looking for old black and white movies to watch 😅
More like this please, this place is awesome!!
"Beautiful ruins", indeed! I'm impressed by the lack of graffiti. Kudos to the residents for preserving the mining history for visitors to appreciate.
The people that live there won't tolerate bad behavior. A person could easily disappear with all the mine shafts around!!
@@lzxray6781My kind of town!
It is a beautiful town, and the people of Lynch mostly take pride in caring for their homes. I want to live in a place like this.
Great video.
I am retired from a coal company and your video brought back memoirs.
Really a great job done.
Thank you.
@@ammapuramsrinivasrao2249 Wow, that is fantastic. 👍
Outstanding video ! I could feel the history of the town 100 years ago....
Absolutely fascinating! I am captivated by your style and manner of delivery. When you think about it, the entire town only lasted a few short decades. And isn't it amazing how fast these structures start to decay?! However, some thoughtful and generous folks have memorialized various aspects with signage and museum-type displays. As you say, it is well worth a visit if any of us has the opportunity.
Just when I think I can’t enjoy one more than the last, you out do yourself again! This is my favorite yet! I love these small towns!
Beautiful country. I'm so glad you love what you do because I love watching what you do. You have also become a very polished narrator since the beginning. Safe travels.
Joe your killing us with these great unannounced videos.
We share your passion for history and culture across America.
One day, I hope you will cover Cumberland, Kentucky and the historical and the ever decreasing population of Harlan, Kentucky.
@@RobOlgatree It’s planned. 👍
Another excellent job on a video that has interesting content with research behind each story. Awesome job you two.
This one is the best! I love thinking about how the area was in its heyday; the workers and their families, Christmases here and social life generally… Thanks so much!
Love your videos. So informative and relaxing to watch. Also great information for people who are may be thinking about moving to other cities or parts of the US. Keep doing what your doing 🙏🏻
Thanks for the ride along, again..A lot of great history in Kentucky
Thank you. We love seeing the history in the places you visit!
REALLY wonderful visit to Lynch, KY. Loved seeing all the coal buildings. Would love to have just one piece of coal from this place. Thanks Joe. 🙂
@@lizinwisconsin6728 I grabbed 3 pieces! 👍
Nice work as always. It's odd to see ruins like these without grafitti and vandalism
My father's side of family lived in and around Lynch for generations. Grandfather grew up atop Black Mountain, father was born at Lynch Hospital.
All of my family left by 1970. I wish they'd have a historic park similar to what is in Houghton Michigan.
Those are beautiful stone buildings.
Thanks for the ride. See you next week. Can’t wait to see the next town .👍👍👍💕
That old 1921 firehouse is ABSOLUTELY CLUTCH
👍Very evocative. Reminded me of South Wales, what with the misty valleys, damp air and rock-hewn streams -- abandon industry in a kind of temperate rain-forest. 👍
I have met retired coal miners that actually had to crawl on their bellies to make a living for families, or be fired. Boys started in the mines younger that 10-12 years. Thank for this video and ready for more. Stay safe
And I moan about my job ! Puts it all into perspective doesn’t it Sarah 😢
What an interesting city! I live in Ky but have never been to Lynch.
If you liked the tipple and other mining stuff, there is another you can visit in the Big South Fork recreational area, also in Ky. It’s called the “Blue Heron mining company”. It’s a public park that’s really well maintained.
I’m stressed..having a hard days (or days).. thank you UA-cam for reminding me of this channel..I need this.. and thank you sir
700 tons of metal a day and now you tell me the worlds changed. Once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name. -- A line that sums up so much of Appalachia and the rust belt. Incredibly Beautiful scenery.
Youngstown. I grew up just a couple miles outside of Y town and that is one of my favorite Bruce Springsteen songs because the lyrics are....perfect.
@@Kat-tr2ig I've never been to Ohio but the song is wildly powerful and paints a vivid image of what it would have been like to be grow up there and see the ups and downs. Amazing song for sure. I love watching these videos of abandoned towns throughout the country. So many stories have been told and hopefully many more to come.
...the only videos I actually look forward to. Thank you for letting us tour parts of our country we wouldn't see otherwise. 😊
I love the way you do your research before each town!!!! This town Lynch, Kentucky was really cool!!!! I like how they turned the mine into a mini museum!!!!! I really enjoy your travels!!!! One day I hope to do the same 🌀🚗💜💜💜💜
My absolute favorite You Tube channel! Truly enjoyed this video...love the history-- cannot wait for next week's adventure!! Thank you Joe & Nic!!❤🎉😊👍
I very much enjoyed the history, awesome video! Enjoy your family time Nic
I've been waiting, another upload from you!
Yes, do more like this twice a week please ...
Harlan County seems like a paradise for urban explorers. All those 100 year old decaying buildings set amongst the scenic hills and river valleys. I would have a field day wandering around and taking pictures. Thanks for taking us there!
Love this channel! I look forward to it every week, adventures, and informative on how these communities get along and survive. 👍🇺🇲
This town/city looks very nice even with all the decay. Thanks for sharing and have a great day and safe travels
Hi Joe from Australia. You and Nic find some very interesting places to visit.I like your presentation style.
Great video Joe!! That old factory architecture is fascinating! Thanks!
Great video! Your videos are always very informative and well done!
Joe, Joe, Joe, super great job on this one. Thanks for sharing this with us. Blessings from Michigan.
Love this video ! My grandfather was a coal miner in NE Pennsylvania in the 1920’s . The area today is very sad since the decline of the coal industry .
Great video. I also LOVE old, abandoned industrial areas or cities. We see these old cities and closed industries that supported WW2 like Detroit, this city and many others. It makes me worry that we'd get out butts kicked if another world war broke out. We don't appear to have the manufacturing capacity like we did back in the 1940's.
Another great video!
You are doing great! Thanks a lot.
totally interesting video. I love how you show the homes good and bad in your videos. I’m thinking probably the people that went to that school are most of them passed away or at least older than than my 80
The men and women that worked in this town for the most part did not have a very easy life, but I think they were grateful for their jobs
An awesome video! A very interesting town, with a fascinating history! Great to explore! I really enjoyed this video! Thanks so much, Joe and Nic.😊💚
Joe and Nicole, you are the best! Your ability to tap into those details that we quietly are curious about is incredible.
Excellent video as usual. Thank you.
Thanks Joe what a great video really enjoyed 😎👍🇺🇸🇨🇱
There must be a lot of old towns throughout the states. I love the old, the history, the forgotten. You & Nicole must have many more places to visit such as Lynch.
Another great history lesson. Thanks. I'm amazed that there is no graffiti in that ruined structure. That's a statement in itself. Thanks.
What I found interesting about driving around coal country in Kentucky was seeing people on the side of the road with buckets picking up coal from veins exposed by the road cut.
I remember seeing people picking up Coal along the roadside after Coal Trucks drove by...
Very interesting town with a spectacular museum. And that beautiful mountain side with full grown forest is to die for. Thank you, Joe & Nicole. We'll see ya on the next excursion. Have a Blessed wk.
I ❤️ 😍 💖 your tours thanks for all you do Joe and Nic🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Im watching from Kenya, I've been a fun for almost 2yrs now never missed any upload, the videos are inspiring and at times I feel as if I m in the scene, you are showing something other YTs don't show us about US thanks and keep up the good work
Amazing, as you said beautiful ruins. ❤
Another excellent upload! Thank you
I really enjoyed this video. The big city visits are cool but to me the smaller towns are more interesting. I was hoping you knew the style architecture for the high schools.
Dude fricken awesome thank you for your effort!!!
Many thanks. Glad to have it over with.
How fortunate that so much survives to remind people today of life in the not too distant past.
It is a great pity that some of the fine stone buildings cannot be repurposed but with a declining population this is unlike to ever happen and so the buildings are doomed to continual dereliction and decay.
Thank you for a lovely and intersting video.
OMG incredible footage
Beautiful place in a way!
Would love to visit myself. Love these type of videos.
Can’t beat good ruins
Early 1900 my maternal grandfather started working in a coal mine in S.E. Ohio at age 9. No education he was drafted in WW 1. The Army used the uneducated to train medics on the effects of Mustard gas. He was granted a life time pension for that. He died before I was born of lung disease. Looks like that town was heaven for that time.
A beautiful place in its time….❣️
I hope the people that live here see this video,what a great tribute to their history,very well done
You have done it yet again Wonderful, interesting video fille with history. Can't get enough of your efforts!
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I really loved this video interesting place
fascinating.. love this new series...
thanks mate. 👍
Where's Nic? I miss her, not that I don't love you Joey..like the other commenter said, she can binge watch for hours..Yes!! Me too, you two are my comfort place! Thanks so much. Miss Nic❤
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Great video. I'm sure you're familiar with the area but be careful in Camden and much of the Philadelphia Metro area. Philadelphia has so many problems like crime, drugs, blight and poverty that receive very little attention from national media outlets.
Great show today. I love the exploration. You guys are the best !!
Hey Joe, FYI from a Kentucky boy. Lynch, Cumberland, and Benham Ky. are known as the tri-cities.
@@sharthun2009 You’re right. I was going to do all 3 in this video, but simply found too much to show in Lynch. Do I will be doing a return visit to Cumberland and Benham in the spring.
THANX JOE
Well Done, Thanks
You make beautiful videos, keep it up, I enjoy it👍👍
Omgosh great vid Joe! I love all the abando, stuff its demoing itself. Did ya notice 4 a town of not many ppl the road was paved! And Joe we love what u do also! Hi 2 Nicole! B safe.
Didn't you notice in every room there was things falling? The power house, school buildings is completely rotten, and probably haunted to boot.
Loved seeing the sights in Lynch! The coal bear was outstanding! When I was a child, we heated with coal in little stoves in every room. I hauled many a scuttle inside. And gotten into trouble more than once from playing the coal pile and getting covered in coal dust! I can still feel the sting of bridal wreath switches! lol Thanks for the history and the memories!
Great video Joe!! I take my hat off to ya !!
Joe and Nic,
Harlan County,
What a time machine.
What a beautiful area, loved the outro!
I would love to see photos of those places in their heyday.
Thank you,
Rik Spector
If you visit Hazard, lookout for the high Sheriff
@@rikspector Thanks, Rik!!!
You are really close to me. I am in a little town of Haysi Virginia. It`s all dead coal country. We were what built America but we have always been slaves...white or black...to the estabishment.
This was a very interesting video. Thanks for showing the end result of this coal company town. I also like you featuring Big boys and their trains. We never grow out of the need to clamber all over a nice engine. Thanks for the entertainment. I look forward to the SE PA visit. I helped build the Gantry Crane at Akers in the Philly shipyard and personally measured the curvature of the crane with an electronic theodolite. So when you look at that crane dominating the waterfront - one of your subscribers helped build it.
Great job..again!
We love what you do also.
Very interesting video, it took me to a very interesting place I have never heard of.
I guess that bear is the rare species of coalar bear.
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I think that read that old High School closed in 1962. After desegregation, and a decline in the number of coal mining, Lynch schools closed entirely. Lynch had another school that operated to 1981. Then the Lynch school district merged with Harlan County Schools in which they sent the kids from Lynch to Cumberland High School in Harland County. Later in 2008, Cumberland, Evarts, and Cawood High Schools would all close, and all the students from Harland County to a brand new consolidated facility, Harlan County High School.
Love your videos, even sad ones like this.
That tunnel and music seem like the hillbilly version of fallout😂😂. The signs, the interactives, and like i said music. I don't live too far to the east so i can make fun of my kind
Good morning! I’ve been waiting for another video 🙏🙏🥰🥰🦋🦋🇺🇸🇺🇸
Loved the video. Miss seeing Nicole in recent videos.
i wish you had shown the old hospital, but awesome video. thx ❤
I still remember seeing trains with a caboose when I was a kid. Then one day I just...didn't. And never saw them again.
Also, it should be pointed out that the mining companies paid their workers in bonds, not in cash, that could ONLY be used at the company store. And the company store's prices were three times higher than any of the surrounding stores or markets. This is the main factor behind why Appalachia is so poor and has been poor for so many generations.