Stone is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

and

coal town A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to the site to work the mineral find. The company develops it and provides residen ...

in Pike County,

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...

, United States. It was established in 1912. Stone was a

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

community named for

Galen Stone Galen Luther Stone (November 21, 1862 – December 26, 1926) was an American financier and philanthropist. Biography Stone was born in Leominster, Massachusetts. In his teens, he worked as an office clerk in Boston, Massachusetts. He beca ...

, head of the Pond Creek Coal Company which was based in Stone. In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a subsidiary of

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobi ...

. In 1936 Fordson sold the mine at Stone to Eastern Coal Company. Stone is located just across the

Tug Fork The Tug Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 13, 2011 in southwestern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern ...

from

Williamson, West Virginia Williamson is a city in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Tug Fork River. The population was 3,191 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Mingo County, and is the county's largest and most populous city. Willia ...

, upstream from

Belfry, Kentucky Belfry is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky. Belfry is located on U.S. Route 119, northeast of Pikeville. Belfry has a post office with ZIP code 41514, which opened on February 26, 1921. The origin of the name "Belfry" is o ...

, on Pond Creek.

References

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University of Kentucky, Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer entry
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Kentucky Populated places established in 1912 Company towns in Kentucky Coal towns in Kentucky 1912 establishments in Kentucky {{PikeCountyKY-geo-stub