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Kentucky Coal Museum

Name: Kentucky Coal Museum
Address: 231 Main Street, Benham, KY, 40807, US

231 Main Street

Benham, KY 40807

Kentucky Coal Mining Museum

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606-848-1530

About Us:
The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is located deep in the heart of the Appalachian coal fields in a former coal camp town, Benham, Harlan County, Kentucky.

Through the vast displays within and around the museum, tourists will be immersed in the life of a coal miner and his family as they struggled to make a life for themselves not knowing how valuable their contributions were to the industrialization of the 20th century.

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