Kentucky Coal Museum

The Kentucky Coal Museum is a heritage center located in Benham, Kentucky. Its focus is the history of the coal industry in Eastern Kentucky, featuring specific exhibits on the company towns of Benham and neighboring Lynch.

Type: Museum
Description: heritage center in Benham, Kentucky
Also known as: “Kentucky Coal Mining Museum” and “Wisconsin Steele Company Store”
Address: 213 Main Street, Benham, 40807

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clutts and Lynch.

Clutts

Hamlet

Clutts is a coal town and an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The coal it produced was distributed through the Clutts railroad station that gave the community its original name. It has also been referred to as Pee Vee.

Lynch

Village

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Lynch is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. In the 2020 census the city population was 658, down from 747 in 2010. Lynch is situated 1½ miles east of Kentucky Coal Museum.

Cumberland

Town

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Cumberland is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, Cumberland had a population of 1,947. The city sits at the confluence of Looney Creek and the Poor Fork Cumberland River. Cumberland is situated 2½ miles northwest of Kentucky Coal Museum.

Kentucky Coal Museum

Categories: heritage center, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Harlan, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.96416° or 36° 57′ 51″ north

Longitude

-82.95124° or 82° 57′ 5″ west

Elevation

1,585 feet (483 metres)

Open location code

868VX27X+MG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 367811874

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

6340601

Wikidata ID

Q6392198

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