Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

The Champion Coal Miner of the World

In 1917, Lawrence B. Finzel was called the champion coal miner of the world, mining an average of 12 tons of coal each day (average was 5).

Hungarians called the US immigration from 1880 to about 1915 the ‘Great Economic Immigration.’ 650,000-700,000 Hungarians came to America.

Excerpt from daily notes Great Great Grandfather James Calloway Campbell wrote to his children near the end of his life.

The hellbender is one of the largest salamanders found in the United States. Only the amphiuma, a salamander shaped like an eel, is longer.

Steubenville had no big fires, or robberies, juicy divorce cases or scandals. That is not to say life was one soft bed of roses.