LADEN TRAIL or THE ROAD Photo Gallery

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series: PHOTOGRAPHS
Series 12: Land Use
Laden Trail or The Road
Photo Gallery

Laden Trail just over the crest of Pine Mountain where it meets the Little Shepherd Trail going west to the Fire Tower. [Photo: Helen Wykle 2018]

LADEN TRAIL or THE ROAD Photo Gallery

TAGS: Laden Trail or the Road photo gallery, Evelyn K. Wells, land use, roads, construction, infrastructure, Good Roads Association, Katherine Pettit, Ethel de Long Zande, Harlan County Kentucky, revenue sharing, fundraising

LADEN TRAIL, or “THE ROAD,” began as a paved road over Pine Mountain that connected Pine Mountain Settlement School to the Laden railroad station near Putney, Kentucky, some eight miles across Pine Mountain. Negotiations for the building of the Road began in 1914, approximately a year after Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded.

The close timing of the Road and the School’s beginnings was not coincidental. As construction of the School progressed, it became obvious that the steep Laden Trail — truly only a trail —over the mountain was inadequate for hauling needed supplies by wagon. By 1920 the founders of the School had a plan, had called in consultants and had begun a fundraising campaign for a road. It was not completed until 1940.

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GALLERY: Laden Trail or the Road Photo Gallery

: Prospectus Map: Road on Laden Trail across Pine Mountain. [delong_road_pro_001.jpg]

: Prospectus: Road on Laden Trail across Pine Mountain. [delong_road_prosp_002.jpg]

: Laden Trail fundraising broadside. [roads_004.jpg]

: Map of roads in Harlan County. [roads_005,jpg]

: Road map with location of secondary schools. [roads_006,jpg]

: Laden Trail road, car and forested hillside. [nace_II_album_086.jpg]

: Maya Sudo Album: “Down Dillon [Laden] Trail.” [sudo_album_031b_mod.jpg]

: “Pine Mountain Settlement School. 1923-4-5 – The First Glimpse” of Pine Mountain Settlement School coming from the west across Laden Trail. [nesb_071_mod.jpg]

: “Mountain View.” Laden Trail across Pine Mountain. [nesb_070_mod.jpg]

: Roettinger Album. “The road above Joe Day’s.” [Dirt road on left and tree stump on right.] [roe_013a_mod.jpg]

: Roettinger Album. “Down the road.” [Two men, one man riding on one of two mules, woman and boy walking down dirt road with backs to camera. Railroad tracks to right]. [roe_002bb_mod.jpg]

: Roettinger Album. “Columbus and Lizzie on the road to Hurricane Gap.” Elisabeth Roettinger, Columbus Creech. [Woman at left holding walking stick, man at right holding small parcel, walking down a trail.] [roe_068a.jpg]