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Kentucky
Kyrock rock asphalt company town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Old bottlesAlso reported: Wheat cents, Buffalo and Jefferson nickels, Mercury dimes, quarry tools.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1918-1957 rock asphalt company town
Built by the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company on the Nolin River, which became the world's largest producer of natural rock asphalt and shipped it by steamboat. The town had about 150 houses, schools, a church, two hotels, a commissary and a ballpark, and the company closed in 1957 when petroleum asphalt undercut it.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old quarries, river
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