WHEELWRIGHT

Wheelwright, Kentucky located in Floyd County a coal company town.

WHEELWRIGHT, IN THE LATE 1940’s had a population of 2,500 a new Reo Speedwagon fire truck, a swimming pool , a 9 hole golf course and a company store . Who can ask for more.
We lived in a Shangri-La, yes a coal company town that had the best. We still meet each spring, to renew old friendships that have outlasted the coal taken from the hills of Eastern Kentucky.

In the early 1900s buyers came to the land owners of left Beaver creek to buy mineral rights to the coal under the small farms. The mining started and soon camp houses were constructed, the railroads from Martin Kentucky were built, in came the workers out went the coal and started the growth of the area from the small family farms to coal company towns. Inland Steel purchased Wheelwright and Koppers Coal bought Weeksbury, in 1930 after both were established by Elk Horn Coal Company in 1916...

If you plain to join us for the spring reunion we have a few tips for Welcome first time guest.
Dr. Forest Newsome and his wife Rita turned a family reunion into an annual event in the lives of more than 500 present and former residents of Wheelwright and Weeksbury.

79 hill news, The company store and more are here if you wish to mine this page. If you have news or questions let me know at dchafin@netscape. net The page is for all who have an interest in the Eastern Kentucky coal fields, your input is WELCOME.

The story of Lewis Campbell told at the company store

79 hill news in about us

The company store is in the business tab

If these walls coud talk by Sabrina Couch Hall class of 1980

Sign Guestbook

A poem by Doris Osborne Wheelwright teacher

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NEWS OF THE WHEELWRIGHT AREA

THE PICTURE SHOW A NEW SHOW EACH WEEK

Wheelwright net for E mail addresses of area friends

The Chafin family located on the staff page

http://geocities.datacellar.net/heartland/ranch/2191/