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The Harlan Center is located in downtown Harlan on Main Street, just north of the US 421 and KY 38 intersection.

Harlan Tourist
& Convention Commission

201 S. Main Street, Harlan KY 40831

(606) 573-4495

(606) 573-9485

harlancenter@harlanonline.net

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🌮HAPPY FOOD FRIDAY🌮 Featuring: Taco Holler

🌮HAPPY FOOD FRIDAY🌮

Featuring: Taco Holler Food Truck & Catering

Taco Holler cares about healthy ingredients grown by local people. They offer a lunch menu, keto baked goods, and more. They also cater events of 30 people or more. Food made with love, from them to you!

You can catch them MONDAY at the 4th Fun-Fest in downtown Harlan 4-10pm!

⛏FEATURED ATTRACTION MONDAY⛏ Portal 31 Mine T

⛏FEATURED ATTRACTION MONDAY⛏

Portal 31 Mine Tour | Lynch, KY

Portal #31 Coal Mine was a facility owned by the U.S. Coal & Coke Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. The company built the community of Lynch, then the world's largest coal camp, as a community for miners of Portal #31. At its height of operations in the 1940s, the mine employed more than 4000 people with the community being a virtual melting pot of people including some 38 different nationalities. Visitors can experience the mine by taking the underground mine tour to get insight into the experience of the miners who at one time worked there. In addition to the underground tour, the site includes a walking tour, a 1920s lamp house, bathhouse, and an on-site museum. First tour of the day starts at 10AM the last tour of the day lines up at 4pm. Plan your visit today!

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🚨THROWBACK THURSDAY🚨 HARLAN COUNTY USA In

🚨THROWBACK THURSDAY🚨

HARLAN COUNTY USA

In this documentary about labor tension in the coal-mining industry, director Barbara Kopple films a strike in rural Kentucky. After the coal miners at the Brookside Mine join a union, the owners refuse the labor contract. Once the miners start to strike, the owners of the mine respond by hiring scabs to fill the jobs of the regular employees. The strike, which lasts more than a year, frequently becomes violent, with guns produced on both sides, and one miner is even killed in a conflict.

#harlancountyusa #films #film #cinematography #coal #kentucky #ky #strike #protest

❔TRIVIA TUESDAY❔ COMMENT YOUR ANSWER There ar

❔TRIVIA TUESDAY❔
COMMENT YOUR ANSWER

There are 3 counties in Kentucky that share their name with the county seat. Harlan is one of them. Name the other two.

FEATURED ATTRACTION MONDAY: Kentucky Coal Mining M

FEATURED ATTRACTION MONDAY: Kentucky Coal Mining Museum ⛏
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The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is located in the former coal mining community of Benham. The building in which it's housed was built in 1923, and formerly housed the coal company's "company store". Exhibits of the museum focus on the history and heritage of eastern Kentucky coal mining and the coal communities of Benham and Lynch. It provides insight into the lives of coal miners and their families including their homes, company store, company hospital and medical care and their work at the mine.

Four levels of floor space with exhibits on the miners' homes, hospital, commissary, engineering, coal sampling, a mock mine tour and the Loretta Lynn "Coal Miner's Daughter" exhibit. Takes the visitor back in time to feel what it was like to live in a coal camp. Hours: 10am-5pm Tuesday thru Saturday.

#kentucky #travel #photography #mining #mines #miner #museum #coalmining #coal #energy #vintage #tourism #tourist #harlancounty #benham #ky