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Stearns is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,365 at the 2020 census. [3] It was founded by Justus Smith Stearns.
22 maj 2017 · Kentucky was experiencing a lumber boom in the late 1890s, and Justus Stearns heard reports of vast tracts of virgin timber in the southern Kentucky counties of Pulaski, Wayne, and Whitley and Scott County just over the border in Tennessee.
This Kentucky Trail Town embodies the majestic beauty and rich heritage of The Kentucky Wildlands. Nestled in public lands, Stearns is both an outdoor playground and a living-history excursion into the era when coal, lumber and railroads were king.
28 paź 2009 · In the early 1900s, Justus Stearns, one of the last lumber barons on the Great Lakes, bought 130,000 acres of virgin forest in southern Kentucky. The town of Stearns became the center of an empire that covered 200 square miles of timber and mining operations.
Constructed in 1907, the McCreary County Museum is housed in the former Stearns Coal and Lumber Company corporate headquarters in Stearns, Kentucky. The building served as the company's office headquarters in the Southern United States, and maintains the company president's office as an exhibit.
15 wrz 2023 · Historic Stearns Kentucky Marker. Inscription. Over one hundred years ago, in 1902, Justus S. Stearns of Ludington, Michigan bought 30,000 acres of virgin timberland in Southern Kentucky. When coal was discovered soon afterwards, the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company was in business.
25 lip 2023 · Sitting on the edge of the Daniel Boone National Forest and the Big South Fork National Recreation Area —with well over 100,000 acres of land and water—Stearns is an outdoor playground for anyone who likes to spend time in nature. Here’s our insider’s guide to adventures near Stearns.
