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• Mingo Oak

  … 500 sermons were preached there. The Mingo Oak was cut down on September 23, 1938, after succumbing to the fumes of a burning coal refuse pile. It was cut by a special crew imported for the purpose from Webster County. The tree was felled by two loggers …

• Penn Central Railroad

  … , then onward to Rainelle and points beyond. Another line ran from Charleston into northeastern Kanawha County. Designed to tap local coal mines, this branch was originally part of the Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad. Through a long and complicated …

• George William Peterkin

  … "Sheltering Arms Hospital":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/385 in Hansford, pioneering in the medical care of coal miners. In 1892, he published _Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in West Virginia_, one of many church-related …

• Philippi

  … in 2023. Other major employers include the public school system. The economy is based on natural resources, particularly "coal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 and "wood":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1341. The …

• Pickens Leper

  … ’s medical condition. Knowing that he had leprosy from having been exposed to it in Syria, George Rashid caught a pre-dawn eastbound coal train out of Elkins in a desperate attempt to return home, believing that if he could swim in the Jordan River he …

• W. Page Pitt

  … , "Harrison County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/273, when he was 12. As a teenager, he worked summers in a coal mine. He graduated from Muskingum College, Ohio, in 1925 and taught for a year at Glendale College, Ohio. He later earned a …

• Place Names

  … provided by later industrialists. A large part of the current place names of southern West Virginia were provided by the coal companies, including coal operator surnames such as Tams or Caperton and compound names such as Fireco or Ameagle. More recently, …

• Plum Orchard Lake

  Plum Orchard Lake was constructed in 1962 by the STEP (State Temporary Employment Program), a public works program that put unemployed coal miners to work at $1 an hour on conservation projects. The lake impounds 202 acres, provides 6.5 miles of shoreline, …

• Democratic Party

  … "Governor Marland’s":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1507 attempt to initiate a major tax revision on the coal industry. And in the 1960s it overcame the corruption scandal of "Governor Barron’s":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Pocahontas County

  … completed to Marlinton and Cass in late 1900, to Durbin in 1902, and on to Winterburn in 1905. In 1903, the "Coal & Coke Railway":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337 (later part of the "Western Maryland Railway":https://www …

• Demography

  … /168 of Kanawha County. After the Civil War, the "coal industry":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 began to grow … southern and eastern Europe. Many African-Americans worked in the coal mines in the southern part of the state, including …

• Hazel Dickens

  … . Other songs, such as ‘‘Black Lung,’’ ‘‘Mannington Mines,’’ and ‘‘They’ll Never Keep Us Down,’’ underscore her commitment to coal miners and labor unions. Her many albums include _Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People_ (1981), _By the Sweat of My Brow_ ( …

• Potomac River

  … through efforts of federal, state, and local governments, it still has critical problems. Acid drainage from abandoned coal mines pollutes the North Branch, while sediment, herbicide, pesticide, and chemical fertilizer runoff from suburban development and …

• Presbyterians

  … developing coalfields south of Charleston. Southern West Virginia "coal camps":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1491 presented … after Sunday morning services to teach and preach in coal communities along the railroads in the afternoon and …

• John Quincy Dickinson

  … he moved to Charleston. Dickinson acquired extensive holdings of coal, gas, and oil properties in Boone, Kanawha, Fayette, … the West Virginia Bankers Association (1894) and the Kanawha Coal Operators Association (1904). John Quincy Dickinson died at …

• Charlotte Pritt

  … remembering her independent race against the party incumbent in 1992, bolted to Underwood, who also benefited by the support of the coal industry and others alarmed by Pritt’s liberal, pro-labor politics. In 2000, Pritt ran for secretary of state, …

• Elizabeth Simpson Drewry

  … the United States.’’ During her first term, Drewry helped to expose a scandal involving attempted bribery of legislators by coal operators. During her 13 years in the legislature, she helped to introduce legislation resulting in the 1956 constitutional …

• Henry Clay Ragland

  … of industrialization. He argued for the creation of a coal-mining and railroad economy, and that goal was achieved … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 and "Island Creek Coal Company":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/914 arrived …

• Irvin Dugan

  … Shakespeare’s ‘‘As You Like It,’’ he was ‘‘short of stature and long on wisdom.’’ Many well-known individuals, including coal mine labor leader "John L. Lewis":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1366 and Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt …

• Dun Glen Hotel

  … , three years prior to his death. Although Thurmond was a small town, it accounted, as a shipping and collecting point for coal and other freight, for almost 20 percent of all the revenue generated in the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railway":http:// …

• Rainelle

  … various fine woods, showcasing the company’s products. The Pioneer Hotel welcomed visitors to the downtown, while the larger King Coal Hotel opened in nearby East Rainelle. For many years, the Meadow River Lumber Company operated at Rainelle what was …

• DuPont Belle Works (Now Chemours)

  … built the Belle plant in 1925. Since "coal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1334 … to be built in the heart of coal country. On April 1, 1926, the … The ability to make chemicals by combining coal gas and other chemicals at high pressures …

• Eastern Panhandle

  … .org/articles/1124, and "wood products":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1341. Mineral production includes "coal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 and "gas":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1600 in …

• Folk Music

  … the rowdier side of labor. The real John Hardy, also an African- American, killed a man in a card game in a McDowell County coal camp. He was hanged for it at Welch in 1894. Twenty years later, the influence of Black blues musicians could be heard in 78 …

• Billy Mitchell

  Brigadier General William L. ‘‘Billy’’ Mitchell (December 28, 1879–February 19, 1936) was chief of the Army Air Service in 1921. He eagerly expanded the role of airplanes in the military. The decision to commit U.S. Army troops to end the 1921 " …