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• Judy Bonds

  … in Marfork Hollow. In 1998, Bonds joined Coal River Mountain Watch, an organization opposed … the position of outreach director of Coal River Mountain Watch in 2001. She … , filing lawsuits, and speaking out against coal companies in general and Massey Energy …

• Jim Justice

  … West Virginia, has financial interests in coal, timber, agriculture, tourism and other industries … president of Bluestone Industries and Bluestone Coal Corporation. Over the next 15 years … 2009, Justice sold the family’s coal operations in West Virginia to …

• Sam Church

  … /835 after taking a job as a miner with a Virginia coal company. In 1975, UMWA President "Arnold Miller":https://www. … a full term to Richard Trumka. He returned to work for a coal company in Virginia and remained active with the UMWA. Church …

• Don Blankenship

  … Leon “Don” Blankeship is a longtime coal company executive and a controversial figure … Richmond-based company becoming the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia and fourth … long-running civil suit brought by coal operator Hugh Caperton. In _Caperton v …

• Buck Harless

  … to work at Red Jacket Coal Company, first as a laborer … also returned to the "coal industry":https://www.wvencyclopedia … remained in Mingo County after coal and timber had made him … of West Virginia’s homegrown coal barons.” In addition to his …

• Jennings Randolph

  … /317 enthusiast, in 1958 he flew from Morgantown to Washington on a plane fueled with gasoline made from West Virginia coal. In January 1958, U.S. Sen. Matthew Neely died. Governor Underwood appointed Republican John Hoblitzell to fill the vacancy until …

• Red Robin Inn

  … for many years owned and operated by Charlie Blevins, a retired coal miner and memorable singer and banjo picker. Later obliterated by … Inn doubled as a regional museum with implements related to coal mining and farming hanging on the wall above the bar …

• The Greenbrier

  … prospered in the 1920s both as a society rendezvous and as a meeting place for business owners and executives in the coal, rail, steel, insurance, banking, chemical, and automobile industries, as well as for members of the medical and legal professions. …

• Nat Reese

  … was four, Reese’s family moved to Itmann, Wyoming County, where coal jobs were plentiful. In 1935, the family moved to Princeton where … piano, organ, bass, and string harp. Reese worked in the coal mines after classes at Genoa High School. For two years, …

• Regionalism

  … of the Allegheny Plateau. It was coal that had the decisive influence on the rugged plateau. "Coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1334 … region. In the southern coalfields the coal companies attracted European immigrants and …

• Religious Broadcasting

  … War II. The broadcasts were carried simultaneously by stations in Princeton, Welch, and Pineville. Like the Parkers, John Bava, a coal miner and preacher, remained dedicated to old-style gospel music played live in the studio. He was possibly the most …

• Ritchie Mines

  … by pioneer oilman Frederick Lemon. Embedded in the hills was a vein of natural asphalt, or grahamite, which could be mined like coal. The crystallized petroleum melted easily and yielded about 150 gallons of oil per ton. A series of owners sought to mine …

• Charles Lloyd Ritter

  … /1529) graduate, in 1902. He purchased many important commercial properties in the Huntington business district and invested in lumber, coal, gas, and mineral developments in West Virginia and nearby states. He was a director of the First National Bank of …

• River Transportation

  … available for the shipment of bulk commodities, including West Virginia coal. Rivers remain important for the movement of bulk goods. At … of tons of cargo are shipped on these streams each year. Coal and coke are the leading commodities moved by water in …

• Guyandotte River

  … (now Logan) and, describing the immense timber resources and coal deposits he saw there, recommended the state build a series of … Guyandotte River commerce. The rails reached Logan in 1904, and coal mining soon became the major business in the Guyandotte …

• Charles H. Haden

  Judge Charles H. Haden II (April 16, 1937- March 20, 2004) was born in Morgantown. He was educated in the Monongalia County schools, and at "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 and the WVU College of Law. He …

• John P. Hale

  … hotel, across from his residence at Kanawha and Hale streets. In the 1880s, the gray-bearded old gentleman engaged in the coal and timber business. Perhaps the thrilling story of his great-grandmother’s escape from the Shawnees in 1755 inspired Hale’s …

• Rocket Boys

  … boyhood memoir, _Rocket Boys_. The book recalls the waning days of coal mining in the town of Coalwood, the dawn of space … in advanced math and physics. They tested their rockets at an abandoned coal dump, which they named Cape Coalwood. The boys won the …

• K. K. Hall

  … judge during his five years in that position, throwing out the state’s outdated abortion laws and granting injunctions against a wildcat coal strike in 1976. He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, a 15-member tribunal that …

• William Starke Rosecrans

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 as superintendent of a "cannel coal company":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/918 and president of the Coal River Navigation Company. When the "Civil War": …

• Ruffner Family

  … the industry that would produce within the Kanawha Salines up to 3.2 million bushels of salt annually. David was the first to use coal in the manufacture of salt. In 1831, he laid out the present town of "Malden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Rural Electrification

  … , and "Mon Power":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2015, which provides electric to central and eastern West Virginia. Coal remains by far the most important source of electric power generated in the state. The REA was abolished in 1994 and …

• St. Albans

  The town at the mouth of "Coal River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … Tackett, who settled at the mouth of Coal River and built a fort about 1786. … a "lock and dam system on Coal River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Rimfire Hamrick

  … . Born in Bergoo, Webster County, Hamrick was one of the best woodsmen of his time and was friend and guide to the coal and lumber barons who used the mountains for hunting expeditions. Originally thought to be the model for the ‘‘Mountaineer’’ statue on …

• John Peter Salling

  … leaving at a major falls and traveling overland to the "Coal River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1365, then followed … Virginia, and he is credited with the discovery of coal on Coal River. In December 1744, Howard was being transported …