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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

Arkansas Creek rural school in 1907 with Cea Stumbo as teacher

Row 1: Arthur Robinson, Raymond Samons, Will Owens, Joe Robinson, Kendall Crisp, James Sammons, Beverly Sammons, Bennie Sammons.

Row 2: Susie Samons, Anna Crisp, Lennie Samons…

Picture 1: Arrena Hicks Davis as a young mother in 1916. Floyd Davis is the baby in her lap. The picture was taken by Joseph Hicks at Hippo, Kentucky.

Picture 2: Taken at Davis' funeral in March of 1971. Pictured are her husband Alka and eight…

Pictured in the front row (woman, sitting in a chair) is Elizabeth Reffett, wife of Civil War veteran Joseph Reffett and granddaughter of land grant recipient Johnathan Pitts. Her sons are lined up in the back; their children are in front of them.…

Picture 1: First United Methodist Church

Picture 2: First Methodist Church has gone through a number of developmental phases. There was a long period before the Civil War when the congregation was not "Churched" and met in open field, court…

The Amusement Hall was located where Snyder's Service Station was located. This building housed a movie theater, a pool hall, a soda fountain and a barber shop. At one time silent movies were shown, and a Mrs. Banks played music.

Also known as Estep Branch and Leck Martin Branch

Company store, 104 duplexes, and 13 single family houses. All houses had electricity and were heated by gas, but did not have indoor plumbing.

Founded by the Elk Horn Coal Company, the town name was changed from "Ballard" to "Garrett" in 1914, for…

James L. Hicks was a wealthy land holder on one side of Brush Creek Mountain who sold all his holdings to buy enough land to leave an inheritance of 50 acres to each of his 17 children on the other side of the mountain in a small community that came…