Great Western Mining and Manufacturing Company

Creation Date

1856

Entity Type

Organization

Mining Company in Lawrence County, Kentucky. Originally Peach Orchard Coal Company in 1847. Named Great Western Mining and Manufacturing Company in 1856. Founder(s): George Carlisle and R.B. Bowler.

Henry Scalf, Kentucky's Last Frontier, (Johnson City, TN: Overmountain Press, 1966), p. 203.
George G. Torok, A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2004), p. 171-172.
"GREAT WESTERN MINING & MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. CHARLES A. HARRIS" in The Supreme Court Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Supreme Court, October Term, 1904 v. 25 (St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1905), p. 770.

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