Exploring the West Virginia Coalfields
Author : National Coal Heritage Area Authority
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Coal Heritage Trail (W. Va.)
ISBN :
Author : National Coal Heritage Area Authority
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Coal Heritage Trail (W. Va.)
ISBN :
Author : James Green
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802192092
“The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Author : American Constitutional Association (Charleston, W. Va.)
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Coal miners
ISBN :
Author : William Purviance Tams (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
"The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia is much more than a brief history of one of West Virginia's most productive coal regions. Written by a pioneer operator who served in leadership positions in the Winding Gulf Coal Operators Association. The Smokeless Operators Association, the National Coal Association and the Southern Coal Operators Association, theis [this] little book constitutes a memoir of a man and a generation that shaped our history. Tams's description of the events, companies, and personalities that built the coal industry in the New River and Winding Gulf regions fills an important gap in our understanding of that volatile time."--Ronald D. Eller, from the Introduction (on back cover).
Author : Christina Paster
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781634991513
The coal industry revolutionized early America, driving the economy for years before oil. What's left unheard of is the struggle of mankind and the sacrifices made to launch our nation into power. Exploring the Abandoned Coal Towns of West Virginia takes readers on a guided tour through West Virginia's coal towns, spotlighting the struggles and sacrifices of early Americans to lead the way into our world today. Many of these coal towns thrived while others plummeted practically to the ground, but traces can still be seen today. We cannot forget about those who built the interior of America, whose homes and businesses now lay abandoned like a wrecked ship at the bottom of the ocean.
Author : West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN :
Author : James E. Casto
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738516653
Coal was mined in Southern West Virginia even before the state's birth in 1863 but was mostly consumed within a few miles of where it was dug. When the railroads arrived on the scene, they not only provided a means of getting that coal to market, they also brought in trainloads of workers to the sparsely populated region. With the mines generally located in remote, out-of-the-way spots, operators were forced to build housing for those workers and their families, as well as company stores, schools, and churches- everything needed in a small community. Overnight, the nation's demand for coal turned sleepy, little places in Southern West Virginia into boomtowns and helped cities such as Charleston and Huntington grow and prosper as gateways to and from the coalfields.
Author : Christopher DellaMea
Publisher :
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Coalfields
ISBN :
Author : Carl E. Zipper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030577805
This book collects and summarizes current scientific knowledge concerning coal-mined landscapes of the Appalachian region in eastern United States. Containing contributions from authors across disciplines, the book addresses topics relevant to the region’s coal-mining history and its future; its human communities; and the soils, waters, plants, wildlife, and human-use potentials of Appalachia’s coal-mined landscapes. The book provides a comprehensive overview of coal mining’s legacy in Appalachia, USA. It book describes the resources of the Appalachian coalfield, its lands and waters, and its human communities – as they have been left in the aftermath of intensive mining, drawing upon peer-reviewed science and other regional data to provide clear and objective descriptions. By understanding the Appalachian experience, officials and planners in other resource extraction- affected world regions can gain knowledge and perspectives that will aid their own efforts to plan and manage for environmental quality and for human welfare. Appalachia's Coal-Mined Landscapes: Resources and Communities in a New Energy Era will be of use to natural resource managers and scientists within Appalachia and in other world regions experiencing widespread mining, researchers with interest in the region’s disturbance legacy, and economic and community planners concerned with Appalachia’s future.
Author : Jay Chatman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1467121924
Over 200 fascinating postcard images show early coal mining in McDowell County and how it progressed throughout the years. Coal was discovered in McDowell County, located in the Billion Dollar Coalfield of southern West Virginia, in 1748, but it was not explored or mined until the early 1800s. Mill Creek Coal & Coke Company shipped the first railroad car of coal in March 1883 via the Norfolk & Western Railway. By the early 1900s, hundreds of mining companies dotted the county's landscape. The coal from McDowell County fueled the nation's home heating and steelmaking businesses and both world wars. As the coal industry developed, the local population grew; by 1950, the county had grown from a few hundred people to more than 100,000. .