Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: West Virginia

Holden 22 Miners Memorial Officially Dedicated

On March 8, 1960, the Holden Mine at Island Creek No. 22 in Holden, WV caught fire in the coal seam. Carbon monoxide asphyxiated 18 men.

Stories from descendants of workers on the dam, government officials involved, and families who’d been displaced by the dam’s construction.

Bramwell, WV, pop. 4,000 at the turn of the 20th century, was the richest town per capita in the US, with at least 14 millionaires there.

Scholars and archaeologists have been duking it out over the authenticity of the Grave Creek Stone since it first surfaced in 1838.

When I threw back the covers, a whole battalion of bedbugs scurried for cover into a hole in the old straw mattress.

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