Chained Rock - Pineville, KY
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N 36° 45.210 W 083° 41.871
17S E 259157 N 4070922
A 101 ft. long chain, traditionally said to protect the town of Pineville Ky by holding a large rock in place on a bluff above the town.
Waymark Code: WMR2F9
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2016
Views: 14
Pineville sits in a narrow valley on the old Wilderness Road, beneath a high cliff and a big rock. For years travelers would ask about the rock, and so would local children, fearful that it would roll down Pine Mountain and flatten the town.
In 1933, the "Chained Rock Club" the recruited help from the local Kiwanis, Boy Scouts, and Civilian Conservation Corps. Using mules and human muscle, they dragged the chain - over 100 feet long and 1.5 tons - up the mountain, then anchored it to the rock with 24-inch bolts. The work was completed on June 24, 1933.
Chained Rock today is reached by a half-mile wooded trail from a mountaintop parking lot at the end of Chained Rock Rd.
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