Download or read book Archaeological and Historical Investigations of Two 18th and 19th century Coal Mining Sites on the Deep Run Tract Henrico County Virginia written by Katharine C. Harbury and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The West Virginia Coal Wars written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the coal wars from Mother Jones and other important participants *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser." - Mother Jones America is famous around the world for being the land of opportunity, and in many respects it has been for the nearly 400 years since its colonization. However, that opportunity has always come at some sort of price. In the times of wooden sailing vessels, men and women risked life and limb to sail across the Atlantic on small, creaking ships, but later, transportation became safer and easier with the invention of the coal powered steam engine. Over time, coal came to be used to power other advances in industry and technology, such as plants that produced steel and electricity. By the dawn of the 20th century, it seemed that there was nothing that the country could not accomplish, and that the future was brighter than ever. But then, as always, there was the price. The vast majority of people burning coal to heat their farms and homes, and those watching skyscrapers rise over the city's landscape, likely never stopped to think about the price thousands of miners across the country were paying for these and other conveniences. Many never knew that coal had to be dug from the ground, typically in dark mines where dust poisoned miners' lungs, and that these men barely made enough to feed and clothe their families despite their hard days of toil. The people using the coal wanted it to be cheap, the miners wanted to earn enough money to survive, and the companies wanted to turn a profit. In some ways, it seems safe to say that conflict was inevitable, but while there were numerous labor disputes during the early decades of the 20th century, few were as violent as the one that erupted in the hills of West Virginia in 1912. In fact, this conflict, which lasted about a decade, has rightly been called a war because men and women killed and were killed on its battlefields, culminating with the largest domestic insurrection since the Civil War in 1921. The coal companies' army was a hired force, professional gunfighters brought in to stop miners. But while they had the best training and the best weapons, they did not have Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones - perhaps the most inspirational union organizer in United States history. With the help of Frank Keeney and other miners like him, Jones successfully brought the owners to their knees and won the right to unionize for miners who had only dreamed it might be possible. Now that a century has passed and mining is at least somewhat safer than it was, those working today can thank Jones and Keeney, not to mention the ones who died at the hand of hired guns, for what freedom they do have to fight for a living wage. The West Virginia Coal Wars: The History of the 20th Century Conflict Between Coal Companies and Miners looks at the tumultuous fight on both sides of the lines. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the West Virginia mine wars like never before, in no time at all.
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Download or read book Report on the Coal Mines of the Monongahela River Region From the West Virginia State Line to Pittsburgh Vol 1 written by J. Sutton Wall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Coal Mines of the Monongahela River Region, From the West-Virginia State Line to Pittsburgh, Vol. 1: Including the Mines on the Lower Youghiogheny River; Description of the Mines The exposure of the Pittsburgh Coal Bed, by erosion, for many miles along the Monongahela River and tributary streams, rendered it of easy access without material labor or expense, and led to its discovery and use by the pioneer inhabitants at an early period in the history of the valley. The first recorded mention of the discovery and use of this coal. That has come under my observation, was by Colonel James Burd, who, in 1759, was sent with a detachment of two hundred soldiers by Col. Bouquet, then commanding at Carlisle, to complete the cutting of Braddock's road from a point east of Uniontown to the Monongahela River near the present site of Brownsville. He says, in his J our nal under date of 22d of September, 1759: This morn ing I went to the river Monongahela, reconnoitered Red stone, &c., and concluded upon the place for the post, be ing a hill in the fork of the river Monongahela and Nemo calling's creek, (now called Dunlap's creek, ) the best situa tion that I could find, and returned in the evening to camp. The camp moved two miles to Coal run. This run is entirely paved in the bottom with fine stone coal, and the hill on the south Side of it is a rock of the finest coal I ever saw. I burnt about a bushel of it on my His notes of the following day inform us that this was at a point two and one half miles from the river. Colonel Burd, being a British officer, was no doubt well acquainted with the appearance and use of English coals, and thereby qualified to express a fair opinion of the quality of the coal that he found and used, Which subsequent developments have fully confirmed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Mining Tract Shirley Plantation Charles City County Virginia written by Dennis B. Blanton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
