096 PHOTOGRAPHS VIII Special Events Floods Fires Railroads

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series: PHOTOGRAPHS
096 VIII BOX 5 Set 96
Special Events

096 VIII SPECIAL EVENTS Floods Forest Fires Railroads

Floods. April 1929 and May 1935. 2384

TAGS: 1929, floods, fires, railroads, forest fires, forests, Limestone Creek, Isaac’s Creek, Isaac’s Run, disasters, Boy’s House, Library, Laurel House I, Office, Aunt Sal’s Cabin, farm, farming, logs, logging, Burkham School House II, locomotives, trains, train tracks, Shell Farm, Dingy train, narrow-gauge railroads
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This is a composite file of photographs that chronicle several types of disasters that often rotate through the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The flooding of the Pine Mountain Settlement School campus in 1929 and 1935; the various forest fires; the massive logging and the building of railroads and roads to transport logs, —- all strain the environment. Roads and railroads may seem a strange entry to the genre of disasters, but because the valley’s of Eastern Kentucky are so narrow, roads and railroads can be enormously disruptive to homes and farms. For example, the early narrow-gauge rail line built to carry timber from the surrounding forest was very disruptive to the early School. It once cut through the center of the campus in the early nineteen-teens and early nineteen-twenties. In the coal-mining regions of Harlan county, rail lines could be found throughout narrow hollows and along the county’s rivers and often mere feet from the front porch of homes.

The photographers of these images are not known as the photos likely represent multiple photographers. The numbers associated with the photographs are those assigned by Berea College when they microfilmed the Pine Mountain Settlement School photograph collections in 1983 and who cataloged the collections. Berea assigned this group’s identification as Series VII, Box 96 photographs. The selected photographs are sequenced 2379- 2410 with a total photograph count of 37 photographs .

GALLERY – FLOODS