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Kentucky Highlands Timeline - 1930
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Kentucky has 300 coal company-owned towns. By the 1950s coal mines one-by-one played out and the coal camps were abandoned. |
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1930 |
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Harlan County Mine Wars begins. |
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1930 |
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Indiana native Harland Sanders moves to Corbin and opens the lunchroom that will become Sanders Cafe, the first restaurant to sell Sanders' famous fried chicken. |
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1930 |
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Drought strikes Kentucky. |
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1931 |
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Ruby Laffoon of Madisonville is elected governor. |
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1931 |
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Harlan County, Kentucky, Miners' Strike Begins |
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1934 |
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Jesse Stuart of Greenup County publishes his first book, Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow. |
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1934 |
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Coal miners in Harlan County begin a strike that lasts for three years. |
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1934 |
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The Tobacco Control Act sets quotas for farmers and guarantees minimum prices for the crop. |
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1934 |
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Record number (278,298) of farms recorded in Kentucky. |
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1935 |
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The WPA (Works Progress Administration) employs 60,000 Kentuckians. |
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1935 |
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State prohibition is repealed and distilleries resume full production. |
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1936 |
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The last legal public hanging in the United States takes place in Owensboro. |
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1937 |
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The Flood of 1937 brings record high water and damage to towns along the Ohio River and most tributaries. |
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1937 |
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The Cumberland National Forest (later Daniel Boone National Forest) is established in eastern Kentucky. |
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1937 |
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John Lair opens the "Renfro Valley Barn Dance," a radio show that introduces many country musicians who later become famous. |
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1938 |
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Pearl Carter Pace becomes Sheriff of Cumberland County. The first women to do so in Kentucky. |
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1939 |
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Bill Monroe and his "Bluegrass Boys" begin to perform on The Grand Ole Opry radio program. |
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1939 |
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Keen Johnson, a Richmond publisher, is elected governor. |
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1939 |
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45,000 families receive help through the New Deal program, AID or Aid to Dependent Children. |
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