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Company Name: Town: County: Years: Kennedy Coal Co: Coeburn: Wise: 1903: St Charles Coal and Coke Co: Pennington Gap: Lee: 1903: Kennedy Coal Co: Tacoma: Wise: 1904 ...
Tales of the orgin of John McGhee."Coal Mining Towns" by Marshall McGhee John was said to be a stowaway on a ship from Ireland with two cousins. John was one of the first settlers on New River in the old 14th CD of Campbell Co. John and Judy are buried across the River at Nicks Creek Church, in a family cemetery. Johns sons served in the Civil War.
Jan 09, 2009 · re: from italy to the coal fields Post by PeterTimber » 08 Jan 2009, 15:03 Hi Nuccia there is one website that covers what you want from 1859 forward for mining in Colorado that I came across just recently when a friend of mine in Arizona asked me about an entire town from trento area migrated there to mine and wanted to know more about them.
Coal from this mine was primarily used for steam and domestic purposes. Mr. Conley Lyons was the general mining foreman for Coeburn mine at this time. The large Thelma mine had coal averaging eight feet. Some mining mechanics were used in Thelma mine for cutting through the coal. Mr. W. A. Smith was general foreman.
Without coal mining Alabama's present railroad system would not have been built. Without coal mining Alabama would not rank today, fourth in the production of by-products derived from converting coal into coke, and without coal mining there would be no nearby markets for the products of the forests and the farms of the State.
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Coal mining in the area didn't start until the early 1800's although evidence of coal and minerals was known before this. There was no great demand for coal until the advent of steam to power the mills.
Coal Miner Records . The Pennsylvania State Archives hold numerous collections which pertain to persons either employed in or in some way associated with the anthracite (hard coal) and bituminous (soft coal) mining industries of the Commonwealth. The anthracite fields stretch for nearly 500 square miles across portions of northeastern ...
1910dec7 jackson, henry asher coal mining 24 f 36 1910 24 1941 jackson, jack har f 737 8 1924sep16 jackson, john 23 f 156 8 1925mar5 jackson, l j magic 51 f 234 1925 25 1925may25 jackson, roosevelt fordson coal 22 f 242 1925 25 1923 jackson, thomas liberty coal & coke f 104 1923 25 1903oct3 jackson, walter nortonville coal 27 n 127 1903 24
WESTERN PA>KLONDIKE COALFIELD>WILLIAMSTOWN / CLYDE MINES WILLIAMSTOWN, PITT GAS, AND CLYDE MINES. Clyde Mines No. 1, 2, and 3 were all started by different coal companies, and by the late 1920's they had all been incorporated into the W.J. Rainey Coal .
msha U.S. Mine Health and Safety Administration (MSHA), Fatal Records Search. Stone Annual Reports (Stone) ? web nd Web1 Welcome to Kentucky Coal Miners. (Kentucky mine disasters, articles). RootsWeb, Ancestry (website). DATE NAME MINE (COUNTY) AGE/ COUNTY F/N PAGE REPORT YR SOURCE 1911JUL11 ABERNATHY, ROBERT St.BERNARD MINING HEN N 39 1911 24
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A hurrier, also sometimes called a coal drawer or coal thruster, was a child or woman employed by a collier to transport the coal that they had mined.Women would normally get the children to help them because of the difficulty of carrying the coal. Common particularly in the early 19th century, the hurrier pulled a corf (basket or small wagon) full of coal along roadways as small as 16 inches ...
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Around 1900 Pittsburgh Coal Company acquired the remainder of the Somers lease / coal reserves (Pittsburgh seam) and went further back away from the river into Rostraver Twp. and opened Somers 2, 3, and 4 mines and built Pricedale. Use of Joy mining machines was pioneered at Pricedale. Coal mining at Pricedale ended by 1955.
Both my dad's and mom's family were coal miners. Both families lived at Cranberry, a coal mining community near where I was born. I never lived in a coal mining community since my parents moved to Prosperity shortly after my brother was born. Yet coal certainly played a role in my life and many of the other families in my little community.
During the hard-fought 1887 Pittsburgh-district coal strike, Frick heard from Chicago to conduct the strike "as Grant conducted his campaigns . . . pound them hard." But when the steel companies insisted on a nonstop supply of coke, Carnegie himself forced Frick to meet the coke workers' wage demands.
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During the years when mining was king in Appanoose County, there were over 400 mines that opened and closed. The first one was near Mystic in 1857. Commercial mining began in 1863 and Appanoose became the third largest coal-producing county in Iowa. The peak year for the county coal was 1917.
Many of these groups, as well as African Americans migrating north, took part in the tremendous industrial growth of the Commonwealth'in the steel production in Bethlehem and Pittsburgh, the coal mining around Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and in western Pennsylvania, and the oil fields in the northwest.
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The Coal Glen mine disaster was a coal mine explosion that occurred on May 27, 1925, in Coal Glen, Oakland Township, Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. It is located just north of the city of Sanford, North Carolina. Fifty-three miners died in the explosion.
Coal Mining in Webster County ....Alfred Townes, who became a surveyor for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (now CSX Transportation), and others mined coal in the area on a small scale even before the Civil War, but commercial production in the county began only in 1888, with the organization of the Providence Coal Mining Company.
Woven into West ia's history is that of the coal miner. Regarding coal mine accidents, the following may be helpful: Dillon, Lacy A. They Died in the Darkness.
Around 1900 Pittsburgh Coal Company acquired the remainder of the Somers lease / coal reserves (Pittsburgh seam) and went further back away from the river into Rostraver Twp. and opened Somers 2, 3, and 4 mines and built Pricedale. Use of Joy mining machines was pioneered at Pricedale. Coal mining at Pricedale ended by 1955.
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The Coal Glen mine disaster was a coal mine explosion that occurred on May 27, 1925, in Coal Glen, Oakland Township, Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. It is located just north of the city of Sanford, North Carolina.Fifty-three miners died in the explosion. Attempts at re-opening the mine were made sporadically until the 1950s, but were never financially viable.
