Blue Heron News

Where: Stearns, Ky., approximately one mile west of U.S. Highway 27 just off Highway 92, 18 miles north of Oneida, Tenn.

Do you like this story? Fifty years ago the coal trains were still taking coal out of the Blue Heron Mines in what is now the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.

The first McCreary drowning of 2010 was reported this weekend as a visiting teen was swept away in the Big South Fork Saturday.

Blue Heron is a ghost town in more than one way. Haunting voices of miners and company officials tell visitors what life was like in the old coal camp at Mine No.