FRANKLIN, Kan. — A key piece of Southeast Kansas coal mining history made the move Friday from an old coal field in northeastern Cherokee County to its final home in Franklin, Kansas. Derrick Tilton ...
FRANKLIN, Kan. — The Miners Hall Museum will host a program, “Moving a Giant: Behind the Relocation of the Page 618,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, at the museum, 701 S. Broadway, in Franklin. Derrick ...
At Famous Reading Outdoors’ trail system near Darkwater, a decommissioned dragline excavator sits atop a hill, overlooking miles of abandoned coal mining land. The ancient, rusted machine is one of ...