waterfall
Cumberland Falls
Known as the 'Niagara of the South,' this Kentucky waterfall is one of the few places on Earth where a moonbow can be seen.
34 km · about 40 min drive
Tennessee, United States · North America
Jellico sits on the route: 20 minutes from Williamsburg, 34km from Cumberland Falls.
Jellico is a town located in Tennessee, United States. With a population of 2,262, it is an important destination in North America.
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The U.S. Post Office and Mine Rescue Station in Jellico, Tennessee, is a historic building built in 1915 to house two U.S. federal government functions. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The first floor of the two-story Beaux Arts-style building was a post office and the second floorRead more
was devoted to the activities of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and a local mine rescue organization serving the coal mining region around Jellico. Mine rescue stations were outfitted with equipment needed to respond to underground mining accidents and served as sites for conducting training of local mining personnel. Congressman Richard Wilson Austin, who represented the area in the U.S. House of Representatives, was credited with obtaining authorization for the building's construction, which cost about $80,000 (equivalent to about $2,500,000 today). Design of the building was by the Office of the Supervising Architect; design work was started by James Knox Taylor and completed by Oscar Wenderoth. It was built in 1915 and dedicated the following year. The building was considered to be unusually fine for a small town like Jellico. A contemporary account suggested that it might be characterized as "government pork". The facilities for the Bureau of Mines were described as the "best ... hitherto given to this organization". In addition to offices, a lecture hall, and electrical connections for a "motion-picture machine", these facilities included a smoke room, equipped with an exhaust fan, which was used in training miners in the use of breathing apparatus for mine rescues.
A similar combination post office and mine-rescue station was later built in Norton, Virginia. Norton is the only other U.S. community ever to have had a combined post office and mine-rescue station, although one was proposed for Hazard, Kentucky.
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Jellico is located in Tennessee, United States, North America. The coordinates are 36.5879 latitude, -84.1269 longitude.
Jellico has a population of approximately 2,262 people, making it a town in United States.
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waterfall
Known as the 'Niagara of the South,' this Kentucky waterfall is one of the few places on Earth where a moonbow can be seen.
34 km · about 40 min drive
tunnel
A 4,600-foot twin-bore tunnel carrying US-25E beneath the historic Cumberland Gap, built so the pioneer pass first blazed by Daniel Boone could be restored to its 18th-century appearance.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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