This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wS.2ADIAE/345.1 Message Board Post: According to the "Kentucky Encyclopedia": p. 209: COAL MINING - In the antebellum period immigrant miners, mostly from the British Isles, arrived. The first known coal camp was built at Peach Orchard in Lawrence County. p. 211: COMPANY TOWNS - In Kentucky, the term company town is strongly identified with the coal industry.....Early company towns in Kentucky include Airdrie (1853), an iron town populated by Scots on the Green River near Paradise in in Muhlenberg County, and Peach Orchard (1845), just north of Prestonsburg on the Big Sandy River's Levisa Fork. p. 722: PIKE COUNTY - Before Pike County was formed on December 19, 1821, it had been, in succession, a part of Fayette, Bourbon, Mason, and Floyd counties. The county was named for Gen. Zebulon M. Pike, the U.S. Army officer and explorer who discovered Pike's Peak. The first session of the county court met on March 4, 1822, at the home of Spencer Adkins on the Levisa Fork near the mouth of Russell Fork. On March 25 a permanent county seat was selected at a site to be called Liberty, about a mile and a half below the mouth of Russell Fork. Opposition by settlers north of the Levisa led to a decision the following year to relocate the set on Elijah Adkins's land on Peach Orchard Bottom, across the Levisa from the mouth of Lower Chloe Creek. Looks like there WERE two Peach Orchards.