Cold iron has a hollow a gravel road, with steep drop off . Thats will take you straight to the Cold mines. There is a creek there you can drive down in the holler but it's was a one lane road. I haven't been there in forty year's. Won't go back . Two far away from grocery stores .
I watched this video with Mom and Dad at there house today. Too cold for them to get out so we spent the afternoon watching your videos. Dad said he remembered when there wasn’t a bridge over the river. He said it was just a ford. His Dad logged back in those mountains a long time ago. My Daddy is 77 yrs old now. We understand the white bags hanging on the trees cause we do the same thing. They measure how big the flood was. We live on down the Cumberland River on the Knox/Whitley Co line. Enjoyed this video very much.
In 71 an 72 while out of school on summer break . I worked with my oldest brother at Herco ice cream an the ice plant. It was flooded out in later years. But everyone ate ice cream on the 4 of july. Older brother still live in Pansy an my relatives.
2 old cars belonged to my Papaw Brock. Over 100 families once lived on Foresters Creek before the mine operation came about. Would like to know what year that happened exactly. My Dad was born in 1940 and I think it was after that. People were forced to move. You were wise to turn around when you did. There's a guard shack. You can't go past shack unless your name is on a list to visit 1 of the cemeteries back there. I've been 1 time to pay respects to my people buried there. We didn't stay long either because there had been a recent bear sighting.
1 of those old cars, I had a chance to ride in. I'd gotten burned really bad. My grandparents was going to take me to church to be prayed over. They said there was a woman with gift of drawing out fire. I got to the car, then got scared and ran off. Always regretted that. Still have scar to this day. This was around 1973.
Legend in my Brock family that owned the land where that mine is was my great great grandfather that couldn't read or write was tricked. He only meant to sell a very small portion of it, not all of it. His compensation was a dress pattern for his wife and a small amount of money. I am the grand daughter of Zackie and Edna (Hopkins) Brock.
You should go to Benham, Ky. It’s a beautiful coal mine town and has an awesome museum. There’s a great park with some outstanding monuments to the miners. The Old Benham School House has been restored and is a B&B. Your viewers would live it. So much to see on the back roads. Thank you.
I like visiting just to spend the night at the old school house that has been made into motel. The place should be marked on maps if only it on account of their modern day usage of it's historical architecture as apposed to demolishing said buildings.
Does anyone know where Former's Branch is? I found it spelled this way on a 1940 census. My grandpa was killed in the Clovsplint Coal Mine back in 1948. I'm trying to find out where they lived ( if it's still around) so I can plan a trip out there. Thanks!
Great video Coyote! The wagons are a 59 rambler and a 52 ford! Thanks for sharing! That sure is a beautiful area! I love the kill dozer movie! It was a D9 Caterpillar!
Thanks for showing me the mines, My Dad was a coal miner, he worked Ky, and Tn. Up until the early 60’s. Beautiful mountains. It’s been many years since I have seen mountains. Hey, if you are ever in Ft. Pierce ,Florida on the east coast , stop by and I will show you my town. God bless , love ya
I Always Appreciation your videos Coyote and the Miss 119 was the road I would turn to get to my Grandmother’s it turns to the left side of 119 going up to a hollow she’s long sense gone now but not the memories
Just found your videos recently and have been binge watching since! My wife had family in Wallins Creek and we lived in Coldiron ourselves from 2006-2007. Moved back up north so my wife could take care of her mother, and I miss Harlan a lot! If you haven't already, maybe you could visit Wallins Creek sometime?
@Julie Coldiron, I’m a Coldiron too. I don’t know my father’s side of the family, only my mom’s side, my father was a Coldiron, he had an unusual name, South Leon Coldiron. Blessings
The white house across the street from the post office is my great grandparents old home. Blanton. I think they moved there in the 40s/50s. At one time the house was the post office and a general store while they lived upstairs.
Her asthma was actually bothering her pretty bad that day, and then things went downhill from there! I'm going to try to put a post up and tell everybody about it tomorrow. She says thank you for thinking of her.
My mom's name was Maryann Chadwick. Her mother's name was Mercedes Durham Daniel Chadwick and her mother's name was Sarah Ellen "Ella" Daniel. That would mean her mother's name was Elizabeth "Bettie" Helton. Not only are some of those names probably familiar or quite possibly well-known...they also have roots buried deep in the hollers of Wallins Creek, Coldiron, and in the dark clay of our own Daniels mountain cemetery.
I really appreciate you making all your videos. I’m from the bell county area, but moved to Lexington a while ago. Watching these brings back so many good memories! Thanks again!
Also, there’s photos from a local, Ron Flannery, when a steam train excursion made its way down through there and they refilled the tender with coal at the railroad tracks running beside the mines
JAD COAL COMPANY was founded i 2008 Annual Revenues were $498,0973.00 Employee Count was 10. You ask and that is whatI found. At 10:40 those two wagons are on the right1954 Ford on the Left a 1950s Rambler Wagon.
My post office box is at Gray's knob. It's a lot different since the road went through, I plan on doing a video out there so keep watching and God bless you!
I swear y'all crack me up😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 looking for them high water marks😂😂😂😂....Weeeeee doggy....that is some pretty scenery....omg! How pretty. Not quite sure about those cars but I had a wonderful day doing donuts in a 69 Buick on ice years ago. 😂 I love seeing those old mines....I will look into that mine. It looks like its not too old. I remember that movie...😌 I feel old. Thanks for the ride and the Michael Jackson impersonations...lol. Y'all are so blessed to be in such beautiful surroundings. God bless
That is not the mines its the tipple ,its used to drop an dump coal off an the long tall thing is a belt line to move the coal into tall piles to hauled off by trains usually ,but trucks back into the blue buildings an dump coal off an dozers move it around from below
Not sure if I missed it but a month before you were here a train derailed in that curve in the beginning of the video, a Boulder fell onto the tracks and derailed the locomotives and 6 cars
@ignitedcoyote, which of your videos is nearest Closplint, KY? I think my late husband attended school in Cawood but I could be wrong. His family were Saylors and Haynes and the Saylors. The Saylors lived in Closplint. Their grocery store was in Evarts.
Love watching your video's. If you are fascinated with mines. You should go to Lynch to Portal 31. Not sure how well your camera will pick in there it is a dark ride. But it is very interesting ride
Thanks, I'd love to go there, we checked it out one time but it was closed because of the covid, but that was a few months ago hopefully it's open now.
Thanks! I didn't know that. I didn't even know if anyone would remember that movie. I recently found it on CZcams and watched it again after all these years, it was as good as I remembered.
2007 goes into the backside of Wallins Creek. Back in the 70's I hauled coal from Wallins. The bridge couldn't hold the weight, do we had to exit through Coldiron. Before that we had to drive empty over the Wallins bridge and drive through the river when loaded. There was a slide that derailed some coal cars last month on 2007 road. I like the real coyote instead of the picture. I hope to see some of the mining disasters. Most are blocked. It is a shame that we can't place a wreath at the Scotia explosion where I be live there are 13 miners still entombed.
Thanks so much for all the good info! I checked out the side of the Yancey disaster and it wouldn't doable in a car I don't know about a four-wheel drive.
That's not the mines they call it the loadout that's where they load the trains and trucks and weigh the coal, the coal mines was on up that Gravel Road you stopped at.
My Great-Grandfather, Harrison Nolan, owned that old store at 2:03. He was a WW2 veteran and a great man.
When I was a kid we live right behind that block church and I always want to your Harrison store all the time
Cold iron has a hollow a gravel road, with steep drop off . Thats will take you straight to the Cold mines. There is a creek there you can drive down in the holler but it's was a one lane road. I haven't been there in forty year's. Won't go back . Two far away from grocery stores .
I watched this video with Mom and Dad at there house today. Too cold for them to get out so we spent the afternoon watching your videos. Dad said he remembered when there wasn’t a bridge over the river. He said it was just a ford. His Dad logged back in those mountains a long time ago. My Daddy is 77 yrs old now.
We understand the white bags hanging on the trees cause we do the same thing. They measure how big the flood was. We live on down the Cumberland River on the Knox/Whitley Co line. Enjoyed this video very much.
So glad you and your family enjoyed the video. That's why we make these, thanks and God bless!
In 71 an 72 while out of school on summer break . I worked with my oldest brother at Herco ice cream an the ice plant. It was flooded out in later years. But everyone ate ice cream on the 4 of july. Older brother still live in Pansy an my relatives.
Thanks for watching Gary!
2 old cars belonged to my Papaw Brock. Over 100 families once lived on Foresters Creek before the mine operation came about. Would like to know what year that happened exactly. My Dad was born in 1940 and I think it was after that. People were forced to move. You were wise to turn around when you did. There's a guard shack. You can't go past shack unless your name is on a list to visit 1 of the cemeteries back there. I've been 1 time to pay respects to my people buried there. We didn't stay long either because there had been a recent bear sighting.
I'm a Coldiron from West Plains, Mo.
One of the station wagons was a Ford the other a Rambler...
1 of those old cars, I had a chance to ride in. I'd gotten burned really bad. My grandparents was going to take me to church to be prayed over. They said there was a woman with gift of drawing out fire. I got to the car, then got scared and ran off. Always regretted that. Still have scar to this day. This was around 1973.
worked at coldiron for kentucky harlan coal owner by Effie Blanton Jimmy his son ran it 1978
Spectacular country. Every person ought to live in such a healthy place. Thanks.
On our bucket list to visit!!!
Yes My Grandparents lived on the Road that goes towards the Bridge over Cumberland River! My Grandparents moved there 1963 when I was 9 years old!!
Now you're on Jesse's Creek... Just keep going to Happy Top, and keep going until you come out in Wallins Creek...
Awesome view of the mountains
Thank you!
If you notice the sign at the bridge it says Dixie Town. The older generation knows it as Dixie Town.
Waste Connections is the name of our trash pickup company where I live here in KY! Beautiful country!
Waste connection is in Knoxville Tn to
The actual mines were in the head of the holler past where the pavement ended, and in various other places around the county...
Legend in my Brock family that owned the land where that mine is was my great great grandfather that couldn't read or write was tricked. He only meant to sell a very small portion of it, not all of it. His compensation was a dress pattern for his wife and a small amount of money. I am the grand daughter of Zackie and Edna (Hopkins) Brock.
I'm going there in June. My family started that town. I have ancestors buried behind the AutoZone and in the coldiron cemetery.
You should go to Benham, Ky. It’s a beautiful coal mine town and has an awesome museum. There’s a great park with some outstanding monuments to the miners. The Old Benham School House has been restored and is a B&B. Your viewers would live it. So much to see on the back roads. Thank you.
I like visiting just to spend the night at the old school house that has been made into motel. The place should be marked on maps if only it on account of their modern day usage of it's historical architecture as apposed to demolishing said buildings.
Does anyone know where Former's Branch is? I found it spelled this way on a 1940 census. My grandpa was killed in the Clovsplint Coal Mine back in 1948. I'm trying to find out where they lived ( if it's still around) so I can plan a trip out there. Thanks!
We'll ask around.
My great grandmother who lived in Sayersville wss a Coldiron....thanks for sharing this you all....love the videos
Thanks Bob we appreciate it!
my grandpa, mother always called it Dixietown
Thank you for posting I could not remember that
Great video Coyote! The wagons are a 59 rambler and a 52 ford! Thanks for sharing! That sure is a beautiful area! I love the kill dozer movie! It was a D9 Caterpillar!
I knew I could count on you for some car info But somebody else remembering killdozer was more than I could've hoped for. LOL
@@IgnitedCoyote I hadn't saw kill dozer for years! I'm glad you brought it up!👍
Thanks for showing me the mines, My Dad was a coal miner, he worked Ky, and Tn. Up until the early 60’s. Beautiful mountains. It’s been many years since I have seen mountains. Hey, if you are ever in Ft. Pierce ,Florida on the east coast , stop by and I will show you my town. God bless , love ya
Will do that, appreciate it!
I Always Appreciation your videos Coyote and the Miss 119 was the road I would turn to get to my Grandmother’s it turns to the left side of 119 going up to a hollow she’s long sense gone now but not the memories
Precious memories!
Beautiful views 👍
Thanks!
I enjoy your videos Mr and Mrs Coyote ! Eastern Kentucky not unlike rural New Hampshire where I live
There is another Coldiron Community in Ashe County NC. Im the grandson of Walter Coldiron and my Great Uncle was Otto Coldiron.
Someday will you be going to Buckhorn? I was raised there. I miss it so much. God bless, & thank you.
My daughter use to live near the old mine in Coldion
Just found your videos recently and have been binge watching since! My wife had family in Wallins Creek and we lived in Coldiron ourselves from 2006-2007. Moved back up north so my wife could take care of her mother, and I miss Harlan a lot! If you haven't already, maybe you could visit Wallins Creek sometime?
We did one on Wallins but we plan on going back and doing a more detailed one soon. Thanks for watching we appreciate it!
He done a video of Wallains, but there was nothing there. Did it all burn down or tore down I left harlan in 1966.
I reckon I need to make a trip to Harlan one of these days.
Come up and see us by all means! 😀
Love the tour 😊
This is beautiful country and I AM A COLDIRON too so I want to go there!
@Julie Coldiron, I’m a Coldiron too. I don’t know my father’s side of the family, only my mom’s side, my father was a Coldiron, he had an unusual name, South Leon Coldiron. Blessings
The white house across the street from the post office is my great grandparents old home. Blanton. I think they moved there in the 40s/50s. At one time the house was the post office and a general store while they lived upstairs.
Thanks for the ride.
Sounds like Ms. Coyote is getting a
cold. Roll up that winder.
Her asthma was actually bothering her pretty bad that day, and then things went downhill from there! I'm going to try to put a post up and tell everybody about it tomorrow. She says thank you for thinking of her.
@@IgnitedCoyote Stay warm y'all
My mom's name was Maryann Chadwick. Her mother's name was Mercedes Durham Daniel Chadwick and her mother's name was Sarah Ellen "Ella" Daniel. That would mean her mother's name was Elizabeth "Bettie" Helton. Not only are some of those names probably familiar or quite possibly well-known...they also have roots buried deep in the hollers of Wallins Creek, Coldiron, and in the dark clay of our own Daniels mountain cemetery.
I really appreciate you making all your videos. I’m from the bell county area, but moved to Lexington a while ago. Watching these brings back so many good memories! Thanks again!
That's why we do these videos, thank you so much for watching!
Love u show, Ronnie Partin is my oldest Brother Wally's Truck. I live on the Ohio River
Thanks for watching! Your brother is a wonderful guy!
Also, there’s photos from a local, Ron Flannery, when a steam train excursion made its way down through there and they refilled the tender with coal at the railroad tracks running beside the mines
Go up the road that is graveled and you can see the washer plant.
You went out of Coldiron onto Forrester's Creek... By the way the true name of Coldiron is Dixie Town...
Thanks Roger, that's fantastic information can't tell you how much we appreciate it!
I love Kentucky pikevile.
Me too
JAD COAL COMPANY was founded i 2008 Annual Revenues were $498,0973.00 Employee Count was 10. You ask and that is whatI found.
At 10:40 those two wagons are on the right1954 Ford on the Left a 1950s Rambler Wagon.
My dad was born and raised in grays knob in 1920!!!!!....i cant seem to find it now....evrythings changed so much
My post office box is at Gray's knob. It's a lot different since the road went through, I plan on doing a video out there so keep watching and God bless you!
I swear y'all crack me up😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 looking for them high water marks😂😂😂😂....Weeeeee doggy....that is some pretty scenery....omg! How pretty. Not quite sure about those cars but I had a wonderful day doing donuts in a 69 Buick on ice years ago. 😂 I love seeing those old mines....I will look into that mine. It looks like its not too old. I remember that movie...😌 I feel old. Thanks for the ride and the Michael Jackson impersonations...lol. Y'all are so blessed to be in such beautiful surroundings. God bless
Thanks for the kind words, we need them we've had a rough couple of days. God bless!
@@IgnitedCoyote sending prayer your way...God bless
The mine was back up where you had turned around..it use to be Kentucky Harlan Coal Co.
That is not the mines its the tipple ,its used to drop an dump coal off an the long tall thing is a belt line to move the coal into tall piles to hauled off by trains usually ,but trucks back into the blue buildings an dump coal off an dozers move it around from below
Not sure if I missed it but a month before you were here a train derailed in that curve in the beginning of the video, a Boulder fell onto the tracks and derailed the locomotives and 6 cars
@ignitedcoyote, which of your videos is nearest Closplint, KY? I think my late husband attended school in Cawood but I could be wrong. His family were Saylors and Haynes and the Saylors. The Saylors lived in Closplint. Their grocery store was in Evarts.
Love your videos. can you do a drive thru in Elcome? Thanks! Bill Muse
Elcome is a great idea thanks!
my grandpa lived in the house next to the post office his name is Dan Russell
Love watching your video's. If you are fascinated with mines. You should go to Lynch to Portal 31. Not sure how well your camera will pick in there it is a dark ride. But it is very interesting ride
Thanks, I'd love to go there, we checked it out one time but it was closed because of the covid, but that was a few months ago hopefully it's open now.
Is there still that Road that goes over the Mountain from Coldiron to Wallins Creek!
If you check out the comment from Doug Clem I believe he's talking about that road. Thanks so much for watching!
The movie " Killdozer" was based on a science fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon...
Thanks! I didn't know that. I didn't even know if anyone would remember that movie. I recently found it on CZcams and watched it again after all these years, it was as good as I remembered.
I remember the movie Kill dozer Scary movie
Anyone know of the Brock Cemetery in this area?
Hi y'all!
Hi,. It's great to be alive ain't it!
I am related to a Mary Lou Coldiron
She was the first woman County Clerk
I LIVE IN COLDIRON
It's a pretty place! We really enjoyed doing our video there.
Its a dream of mine to live out in the sticks and have a 70 chevelle in the barn
It would be great to live anywhere and have a 70 Chevelle. LOL
@@IgnitedCoyote True but on the back roads of the country less chance of getting stopped by the cop for speeding lol
2007 goes into the backside of Wallins Creek. Back in the 70's I hauled coal from Wallins. The bridge couldn't hold the weight, do we had to exit through Coldiron. Before that we had to drive empty over the Wallins bridge and drive through the river when loaded. There was a slide that derailed some coal cars last month on 2007 road. I like the real coyote instead of the picture. I hope to see some of the mining disasters. Most are blocked. It is a shame that we can't place a wreath at the Scotia explosion where I be live there are 13 miners still entombed.
Thanks so much for all the good info! I checked out the side of the Yancey disaster and it wouldn't doable in a car I don't know about a four-wheel drive.
if you'll check out the comment from Alan Carter I think he's asking a question about the very road you're talking about.
That's not the mines they call it the loadout that's where they load the trains and trucks and weigh the coal, the coal mines was on up that Gravel Road you stopped at.
But it's all shut down at the moment.
Thanks, I was wondering where the mines was at, and thanks for watching, God bless.
@@IgnitedCoyote you're welcome
This is where I live in what's called Dixietown
police just went up highway 72 catrons creek.i dont know whats going on brother.
Hope nobody's hurt, thanks for the info. God bless.
They strip mine the coal to their by truck
How are you and your wife doing?
My wife is still in a lot of pain but there's a lot of folks praying for her. Thanks for thinking of us.
@@IgnitedCoyote Your Welcome. Y'all are still in my prayers.
The house that burnt was Fred and Phyllis carmichel's house.