Wheelwright

County:

Coalfield:

Companies:

Camp Status:

Begin Year: 
1918
End Year: 
1958
Post Office Address/Status: 
80 Shop Fork Street, 41669; Operated 1916-present
Oral Histories: 

1.) (1988-1989) Coal Operators Oral History Project. 46 interviews. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/series/18738/coal-operators-oral-hist...

2.) (1988-1992) Family and Gender in the Coal Community. 64 interviews. Louie B, Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/series/18740/family-and-gender-coal-c...

Publications: 

1.) Graves, Glenna Horne (1993) In the Morning We Had Bulldog Gravy: Women in the Coal Camps of the Appalachian South, 1900-1940. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

2.) Perry, Lisa R. (2014) Reimagining Camelot: Wheelwright, Kentucky in Memory and Folklore. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

3.) Torok, George D. (2004) A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

4.) Williams, Lewis M. (1943) The Transformation of a Coal Town: Wheelwright, Kentucky. Inland Steel.

Web Links: 

http://www.coaleducation.org/coalhistory/coaltowns/wheelwright.htm

Coordinates: 
Latitude: 37.330857000000
Longitude: -82.717384000000
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