
The winding course of Knox Creek dictates the layout of human life along the border of Virginia and Kentucky in the early 1960s. This survey records the industrial and social infrastructure of the central Appalachian coalfields, where the Norfolk and Western railroad snakes through deep hollows to serve settlements like Hurley, Kelsa, and Argo. The landscape is a complex network of resource extraction and local community, indicated by the numerous gas wells, coal mines, and a large strip mine positioned along the ridges.
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1914 Bucu
Buchanan County, VA

1914 Hurley
Buchanan County, VA

1915 Hurley
Buchanan County, VA

1916 Bucu
Buchanan County, VA

1917 Hurley
Buchanan County, VA

1935 Big A Mountain
Buchanan County, VA

1935 Jewell
Buchanan County, VA

1935 Pistol Gap
Buchanan County, VA

1954 Harman
Buchanan County, VA

1954 Hurley
Buchanan County, VA

1958 Big A Mountain
Buchanan County, VA

1963 Harman
Buchanan County, VA

1963 Hurley
Buchanan County, VA

1963 Prater
Buchanan County, VA

1964 Patterson
Buchanan County, VA

1968 Keen Mountain
Buchanan County, VA

2022 Big A Mountain
Buchanan County, VA

2022 Harman
Buchanan County, VA

2022 Hurley
Buchanan County, VA

2022 Keen Mountain
Buchanan County, VA

2022 Patterson
Buchanan County, VA

2022 Prater
Buchanan County, VA