Eastern Kentucky’s ‘Higher Ground’ Homes Are Being Built

Eastern Kentucky’s ‘higher ground’ homes are being built

The groundbreaking Wednesday for a new neighborhood in the Floyd County seat of Prestonsburg wasn’t just a ceremony for Tom Manning-Beavin. The crews working for his nonprofit had already started digging trenches to pour concrete foundations of future homes.

Eastern Kentucky’s ‘higher ground’ homes are being built. The builders see the need for much more.

An overlook of the finished Thompson Branch community in Letcher County. (Screenshot via Facebook page of HOMES Inc.)The groundbreaking Wednesday for a new neighborhood in the Floyd County seat of Prestonsburg wasn’t just a ceremony for Tom Manning-Beavin. The crews working for his nonprofit had already started digging trenches to pour concrete foundations of future homes.  “My crew leaders were talking to the city building inspector as we were …