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McRoberts, KY

High Resolution Historic Image Overlays

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

People often ask, “Are there pictures of the mountains before mountaintop removal coal mining destroyed them?” Thanks to the United States Geologic Survey and Google Earth, they are right here at your fingertips!
Load image overlay to show McRobert’s terrain before
mountaintop removal coal mining began.

(Download these images by clicking on the pictures below)
McRoberts 1983 McRoberts 2004
before
(image overlay)
after
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One Response to “High Resolution Historic Image Overlays”

  1. connie Says:

    I was born there and grew up there. I would climb the hill in front of my home and set up there on heart rock, and I could see for miles in all directions. when I go home now all I see is a lady who has been raped and left to die. I don’t go there these days. my mother wantes to go home but home is gone,where do I take her, someone help. She is 76 and wants to die at home.

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