Category: Featured
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Hatfields & McCoys in the Media: The Election Day Fight
The election day fight is one of the most infamous stories in Hatfield & McCoy Feud lore. And as with many stories found in history, historians and Hatfield and McCoy descendants differ in opinion on the details of the historical account. Depictions of both Tolbert McCoy and Ellison Hatfield, who allegedly began the fight that resulted…
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Photoblog: Hatfields & McCoys Historic Sites Ready for Tourists Season
This article was written in 2018. Over the past month, Pike County Tourism CVB, along with the Pike County Fiscal Court, Pikeville City Government, UMG, and a host of volunteers worked to get many of the Hatfields and McCoys Historic Sites ready for tourist season. City and county staff worked tirelessly to restore the grave…
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Hatfields & McCoys Historic Feud Driving Tour Brochure
Download | Request By Mail The Hatfields & McCoys Historic Feud Driving Tour is one of Eastern Kentucky’s most popular attractions, with thousands of visitors each year exploring the sites where the most infamous feud took place. Visitors can see the Hog Trial Cabin, the McCoy Homeplace featuring the McCoy Well, the historic Pike County Courthouse where…
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Big Sandy Heritage Museum Lecture Series – The Hatfields & The McCoys
As a part of this year’s Hatfield McCoy Heritage Days, local history buff Reed Potter hosted an interactive lecture series at the Big Sandy Heritage Museum on the Hatfields and the McCoys. A wide variety of topics concerning the history of the feud was discussed with an interactive dialogue with the visitors. The Big Sandy…
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Historic “Hatfield and McCoy Feud” Comes to Baseball Via the Lexington Legends and West Virginia Power
(WHITAKER BANK BALLPARK, Lexington, Ky.) The Legends are proud to announce an important community partnership, bringing the Hatfield & McCoy season long promotion announced in April full circle, by taking the historic feud back to its roots in Pikeville, Kentucky. Giving back to the community is at the core of all the Legends’ ventures and…
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What Hillbilly Days Means: From the Point of View of a Shriners Kid
Hillbilly Days is one of Kentucky’s most popular festivals, attended by hundreds of thousands of visitors from all around. But to me, Hillbilly Days is something special. It’s billed as “the festival with a heart”, but what exactly does that mean? When I was a child, I was born with deformities in my feet. This…