Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site, Middlesboro, Kentucky - Kentucky Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

The Marker is two sided and the marker text reads:
"Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site - Designated by the Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists as a Designated Geological Site. Middlesboro is one of only a few cities on the North American continent located in the basin of a meteorite impact structure. Over. Presented by the Bell Co. Historical Society 2008 Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Department of Highways 2225"

"Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site - Sometime over the past 300 million years the impact of a meteorite in the heights of the Appalachian Mountains formed a circular basin approximately three miles in diameter in which the city of Middlesboro was built in 1889. Presented by the Bell Co. Historical Society 2008 Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Department of Highways 2225"

Marker Name: Middlesboro Meteorite Crater Impact Site Marker Location: City Type of Marker: Other Marker Number (for official markers): 2225 Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker: Bell Co. Historical Society Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky Department of Highways

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