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The Mayes Cross
Coal miner and sign painter Henry Mayes (1898-1986) conducted a "ministry of signs" from
 1918 until his death, placing hundreds of concrete crosses and other roadside signs along highways throughout the nation. His signature sign was a heavy concrete cross emblazoned: "GET RIGHT WITH GOD."
Mayes lived several years in Tennessee and later moved just across the Kentucky line to Middlesboro.
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