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The Eastern Kentucky Railway was a major factor in the development of this area. It opened from the Ohio River here to Argillite in 1867 and finally reached Webbville, Lawrence County, in 1889. It hauled local timber, iron ore, and coal, but never fulfilled its owners' plans to connect southern coal fields with the Great Lakes. Its total trackage was 36 miles, and it was abandoned by 1933.
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Greenup, Kentucky · United States
