Sunday, March 9, 1862, ushered in a new era of naval history as two of the strangest warships the world had yet seen clashed on the waters of Hampton Roads, Virginia (Fig. 12.1). That benchmark day...doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14508-2_12Robert C. Whisonant...
Map of West Virginia Originally a part of Virginia, the state of West Virginia is the only state formed from another state. Rich in natural resources, the state provided coal that fueled the nation’s industrialization throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. That nation’s move away from...
Located near the top of the grade in the north, Thomas was a bustling center for the coal mines that sprang up nearby and shipped their product via the railroad. Today, many brick buildings from that era house boutiques and antiques stores. ...
West Virginia was important on the other side of the industrialization issue as well. West Virginia was a major seat of union organization in the U.S., and the state's miners' strikes drew national attention. The working conditions in mines and factories were one of the most significant poli...
for coal long enough to keep record of such events – hundreds and hundreds of coal miners have lost their lives and suffered severe injuries in the West Virginia mines. Though they occurred more frequently in the 20thcentury, even the last 15 years so has seen dozens of coal mining deaths...
Figure 1. Map of Itmann Coal Mines No. 1, 2, & 3, Pocahontas No. 3 Seam, Consolidation Coal Company, Southern Appalachia Region, 1983/03/04, CON411.jpg from the Pocahontas Mines Collection, Ms2004-002. This map in Figure 1 is a production scheduling map of the Itmann No. 1, 2,...
There used to be a hundred thousand people in the county. Used to be. Back when the coal mines ran three shifts a day. That’s another used to be. Automation cut back the work force. Machines replaced men. That was already an issue back in 1960, when John F. Kennedy was campaigning...
come out of the mines with bowed legs and pick axes and straw baskets wrapped with strap around their forehead to carry the coal their bodies bent under the weight. He also talks about how that region was going to be China’s breadbasket, an area of untapped resources. American companies ...
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Old coal mines option for West Virginia aquaculture.(Brief Article)MARTIN, JAMES D