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File One: Agreement for Rights Empire Coal & Land & Lydda Charles
File Two: Agreement for Rights Empire Coal & Land Co & Jacob Hatfield
File Three: Agreement for Rights Empire Coal Loan Co & Jacob Hatfield

This city was a booming coal town before World War II, is centered at the junction of KY 7 and 1086 and the confluences of Steele and the Right Fork of Beaver Creeks, 14 mi south of Prestonsburg. In 1913, on land acquired from Dan Martin, the Elk…