The David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum is a local history museum located at 102 Main Street in

Jenkins, Kentucky Jenkins is a home rule-class city in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,203 as of the 2010 census. History In autumn of 1911, the Consolidation Coal Company purchased the current location of Jenkins as part of a tr ...

, 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 A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing s ...

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 railroads and mines, and

scrip A scrip (or ''chit'' in India) is any substitute for legal tender. It is often a form of credit. Scrips have been created and used for a variety of reasons, including exploitive payment of employees under truck systems; or for use in local co ...

formerly used in the company stores. All of the exhibits illustrate the history of Jenkins and the Consolidation Coal Company., and many of the exhibited items belong to local residents.

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Museums in Letcher County, Kentucky Mining museums in Kentucky Railroad museums in Kentucky Museums established in 1998 1998 establishments in Kentucky Coal museums in the United States Transportation in Letcher County, Kentucky Jenkins, Kentucky {{LetcherCountyKY-geo-stub