from Caryl Carpenter, posted July 2023 Stoney Fork, Tennessee is an isolated area in the southwest corner of Campbell County. Stoney Fork is approachable from three ways, all over unpaved gravel roads. The road from the North comes in from Norma in Scott County, and at one point crosses a stream that, with any …
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In the 1970s, Petros was a small community of 1400 on the eastern border of Morgan County. Unemployment in the county was high, in part because there were only 3 manufacturing firms that did not provide enough jobs to replace those lost as strip mining replaced deep mining. In 1972, there was no practicing physician …
Contributed by Caryl Carpenter, November 2022. Norma, Tenn. is one of the original three communities that came together to form Mountain People’s Health Councils (MPHC). Norma is in the southern part of Scott County, Tenn., a county that was once one of the leading coal producers in the state. Norma was at one time a …
