Abandoned Mines, Failed Murder and Explosives all in Eastern KY Location
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Mullins Station (Originally Withers KY) Mines in Rockcastle County Kentucky. Founded in 1886, closed in 1979.
In 2014, a Pulaski County man was charged with luring his co-worker to the mine, beat him to death( so he thought) and buried his co-worker under rocks and rubble left for dead. A couple men out picking up spent ammo casing heard moans and groaning and went to investigate and found the beaten man who recovered and the assailant is now in prison. You can read the news article on line.
The Mines where established along the L&N’s Kentucky Division mainline in June 1886. The town grew to include 50 residents, a sawmill, and other businesses. A limestone quarry was opened adjacent to the Mullins Tunnel in 1897 and was later operated by the Kentucky Stone Company prior to 1939 the quarry operated until 1979. The white crystalline oolitic limestone and a medium gray microcrystalline limestone was crushed and used as ballast for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N), cement for roadways, and as lime for farm fields.
The Kentucky Powder Company still makes explosives' in the old mines across a 1930's covered bridge and there is (usually) guards there 24/7, so I do not advise trying to visit that section of mines. Although that section is said to cover several miles of tunnels.
The Kentucky Stone Company also operated a rock wool production plant at Mullins, which produced an insulating material manufactured from argillaceous limestone or purer limestone in combination with shale, sandstone, or slag. It required the fusing of the rock and then blowing the liquid into fibers by a strong jet of steam. The rock wool facility was destroyed by fire in February 1939.
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Great video, man! Those are some BIG mines! Out here in the desert of California, I’ve explored some dolomite mines that were similar in size to the mines you show in this video. It seems that our video cameras just can’t capture how massive and big these mines actually are when we’re there in person. Looks like they may have been doing room-and-pillar mining where they leave behind big pillars of rock for support. I noticed in the train tunnel that there looked to be one of those cubbyholes on the far wall about halfway through the tunnel where a person would go if a train came through the tunnel while they were in there. You need to go back and find those mine tunnels that go in for three or 4 miles like you said. Interesting video! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching!. Yes you are right, the camera just does not show how large some of these mines are. I never noticed that cubbyhole you talk about, I will have to watch the video again, I never saw them LOL.. I know that some of the other ones are just across the road, but they are used to make explosives in and are well guarded. Someone told me there are more in the area that can be explored, I just have not looked into it, work is getting in the way LOL
Ahhhh is that what it is? I also left a comment about that nook a while back, our man here posited both that and the possibility of it being a tool storage for maintenance or some such, but I have to admit Cold War fallout shelter wishful thinking was dominating my thought process at the time lol.
@@kadoj Yeah, that would be cool if it was a fall out shelter. Don't think there are to many of them around in Eastern KY LOL
@@ScottExploring hey you never know man. Raven rock is in the middle of nowhere too, so is Cheyenne mt. I’d say secluded unlikely areas are exactly the qualities id look for if I were gonna put a secret hole in the ground ;P
15:40 the mines do keep going a little deeper, the entrances are just small and start to become crawl spaces
Maybe that is why I did not notice the mine going back much more, my crawling through holes in the ground days are long gone LOL.. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
@@ScottExploring Anytime, I’ve attempted to go deeper before but stopped because It was only me and a friend, there’s also a few drop offs further in but to get down them you would need climbing equipment, but I’m interested to see what could be farther down then I’ve went 😎
@@smokinwitgamerz1032 I you ever find out how far back they go, or what is at the bottom, be sure to let me know. I am curious now LOL
Live in berea, use to go there alot but there's a really shady reputation to it and have had some very shady experiences
I heard about the reputation of that area, but it was after I was there LOL... Thanks for watching
Place is a little wild at night but during the day it’s pretty much a shooting range 😂
hello, the fuel tank and augers are used to make AN-FO. Ammonia Nitrate and Fuel oil. commonly used in quarries to backfill holes when blasting to make the explosion more powerful when filled in with explosives. You can go to where they load it on the trucks and see it laying on the ground. Dont smoke near it though!
Did not know that, thanks for for the info, good thing I do not smoke!
my grandfather lived close to there and i spent as much time as i could with him.
That's good that you was able to spend time with your grandfather. We can learn a lot from the old folks. To bad mine all died when I was very young....
I would imagine there was a descending shaft entrance that has been buried over for safety reasons. It is too small to be 100 years of work,
That is possible, unless they were only going after small amounts of rock at a time, but it does seem like the place would be bigger.. Thanks for watching!
I live nearby and I've visited alot there's no guards except on the other side of the gate with the bridge
Sometimes the guard will sit out in the big open lot. My aunt has talked to them a few times when turning horse trailers around there. But yes, most of the time the guards are on the other side of the covered bridge.
I’ve been there didn’t know they were that old there’s some active ones nearby
Thanks for watching. I have heard there are a lot of old and active mines in that area
I grew up in that area
Where the car was parked they stored coal and load it on the train back in the day
Did not know that, thanks for the info!
Said area was highly guarded, but guard was no where to be found. He must be working for Fife Security. Do you know the one called Teknohillbilly.
No one guards these mines, it's the ones across the road. But there was no guard when I was there either, unless they were just out of site.
I heard the cave collapsed about halfway through recently though
If that is the cave with the water barrel in it, then yes there was a cave in, but I think you can walk through the water (during summer) to get to the other side, we where there a 2nd time in the winter and did not want to walk in the water..
Looks very bag wow cm
my father and grandfather worked there.
You know a lot of the history for that area then! thanks for sharing and watching
Hey when you showed the tunnel there was a little doorway in the wall on the other side from you, about forty feet down the way, you wouldn’t happen to have any idea what that might be would you? I’m extremely curious...especially in an area with as many tunnels and openings into the solid rock already... maybe a fallout shelter from the early Cold War, who knows....
In the train tunnel? I never saw that.. I will have to go back and re watch to see that. Maybe it was an access to storage for repairs on the tunnel? Or maybe it's a escape area if working in the tunnel and a train comes. I did not see it when i was there....
@@ScottExploring your maintenance area/storage theory is probably the right one... but it wouldn’t so cool to find out it was something....interesting... would it not?
It’s just a door sized indention for someone to get inside incase a train comes through
@@_FullSpeedAhead_ yeah I more or less figured that was likely the case, but I couldn’t tell for sure in that shot whether it went any further back than just a superficial duck-out…
I live in London how do I get to this place I’ve really been wanting to go
Google Mullins Station Limestone Mine, it will pop up on Google Maps and if I remember correctly, google maps will take you right to it.
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Thanks
It always amazes me how people always have to shoot up and destroy stuff.Those type of people give us Gun owners a bad name.
Yeah, I do not know why people have to be that way.... Thanks for watching
There is a cave right down the road from there
If the one you are talking about is the one we went to, I have been in it. Does it have an old water barrel in it?
Yeah
Towards the exit, there is also another cave just up the road a ways called the muddy crawl I think, it is a little less popular and not as widely known, I have only been there once.
Not the backroad the mines and other cave is on but off the right hand side of the main road, it's a very uncomfortable cave to explore
Where is this?
Rockcastle County, Kentucky
That place is awesome
It is, and the size is unreal!