The Pikeville Cut-Through Project

In this video, we talk about the Pikeville Cut-Through Project and how our City moved a mountain. It was called Hambley's Dream, and Dr. William C. Hambley pursued this project with a passion for over thirty years, beginning even before he began his 29 years of service as Pikeville's mayor. Once completed, the Cut-through project would move nearly 18 million cubic yards of soil and rock at a total cost of about $77.6 million. Today, the C&O Railroad, the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River, and a modern, four-lane highway pass through the channel formed through Peach Orchard Mountain. This highway combines the traffic from four major routes and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet estimates that about twenty-five thousand cars pass through it daily.

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Видео The Pikeville Cut-Through Project канала Pikeville History Moments