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Category: Coal mining

Kentucky & Tennessee Railway steam engine in stearns, ky
May 22, 2017 Coal mining / Kentucky / Place names

Stearns KY emerges out of the Big Survey

Justus Stearns heard reports of vast tracts of virgin timber in the southern Kentucky counties of Pulaski, Wayne, and Whitley.

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b&w lineart of henry reed fiddler
April 28, 2017 Appalachian music / Banjo / Coal mining / Fiddlers/fiddling / Virginia

The art and influence of fiddler Henry Reed

Henry Reed ‘s tunes are now in wide circulation among younger American fiddlers. Perhaps the most widely circulated is “Over the Waterfall.”

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KY Troops confronting miners on a railroad track, 1939
April 7, 2017 Coal mining / Kentucky / Mine Wars / Unions

He said if miners picketed his mine he would slaughter them

The Harlan County gun thugs in reality got nothing for their efforts to drive out the UMWA union. Most of them died violent deaths.

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gravestone reads: 'led the world mining coal'
April 3, 2017 Coal mining / Maryland

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).

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Mother Jones speaks to a crowd near in Star City, West Virginia, 1910s
February 22, 2017 Child labor / Coal mining / Mine Wars / West Virginia

You murdered that you and your wives might have palaces

Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, was an American labor organizer and one of the founders of the Social Democratic party.

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