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David A. Zegeer Coal & Railroad Museum

Whitesburg KY 41858
David A. Zegeer Coal & Railroad Museum
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The David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum is local history museum located at 9505 Ste B Hwy 805 in Jenkins, Kentucky across from the former Jenkins High School. The museum was dedicated on May 9, 1998. The museum is housed in an authentically restored 1911 train station which it shares with a bank. Included in the museum’s collection are photographs of historic and modern coal mining, actual tools and other artifacts used by the railroads and mines, and scrip formerly used in the company stores. All of the exhibits illustrate the history of Jenkins and the Consolidation Coal Company.