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• Fayetteville

  … , incorporated under that name in 1883, would remain the county seat. Fayetteville prospered as the county became a leading coal producer after 1880, and it declined after 1950. The "New River Gorge Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Starland Theatre

  … parked on U.S. 52 and at the nearby airport to view the Starland fireworks display. McDowell County’s declining coal employment and falling population, and the coming of television and later videocassettes, determined Starland’s fate. The theater …

• National Recovery Administration

  … of the NIRA which gave employees the right to organize and bargain collectively. The effects on West Virginia’s "coal industry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 were profound, as the coalfields quickly went from nonunion to union. …

• Mountwest Community and Technical College

  … degree programs. In 2012, the college moved off Marshall's campus and into an office building once occupied by Ashland Coal. The college also operates the Center for Culinary Arts and the Inland Waterways Academy. In fall 2022, its total enrollment …

• John Raese

  … in the general election. Raese is president of Greer Industries, which includes Greer Limestone, Greer Steel and Preston County Coal and Coke. He is chairman of the board of West Virginia Radio Corporation and founder of MetroNews Radio Network. …

• David McKinley

  … Barack Obama and his administration. He opposed a major reform of health care and criticized federal regulations that targeted the coal industry. He broke with the GOP, however, in opposing a budget proposal that would have cut Medicaid. McKinley was …

• Robin Jean Davis

  … ;Boone County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/609, on April 6, 1956, the daughter of a teacher and a coal miner. She received her bachelor’s degree from "West Virginia Wesleyan College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1135 in …

• Brent Benjamin

  … Democratic incumbent Warren McGraw. During the campaign, A.T. Massey Coal Company President Don Blankenship spent $3 million on an … voted in favor of Massey in a case involving a rival coal company, Harman Mining Corporation, and its owner, Hugh Caperton, …

• Charles Rogers

  … of Honor recipient Charles Calvin Rogers (September 6, 1929- September 21, 1990) was born at Claremont, Fayette County. Rogers’s father, a coal miner and a World War I veteran, instilled in his son a love for his country and the military. In 1951, Rogers …

• Basil L. Plumley

  … October 10, 2012) served in three wars, and his exploits during Vietnam were depicted in a book and a movie. The son of a coal miner, Plumley was born one of six children in Shady Spring, Raleigh County. He left high school after two years and worked as …

• Ralph Pomeroy

  … County, the second of nine children. After graduating from Crichton High School in 1948, he worked for the Imperial Smokeless Coal Company in Quinwood until October 1951. Pomeroy entered the Army on October 17, 1951, and after training in Hawaii, was …

• Stanley Bender

  Medal of Honor recipient Stanley Bender (October 31, 1909-June 22, 1994) was born in Carlisle, Fayette County, the son of a coal miner who had immigrated to America from Russia. By 1930, Bender relocated to Chicago, where he found work as a chauffeur for a …

• Mullens

  … Wyoming County’s largest incorporated town with a peak population of 3,544 in 1960, but the number of residents fell as coal employment shrank due in large part to "mine mechanization":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1364. A flood in July …

• Crayfish

  … in West Virginia has been drastically reduced because of this and other forms of environmental degradation occurring in West Virginia’s coal fields, and consequently is West Virginia’s most imperiled crayfish. In 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service …

• Elk River Chemical Spill

  … municipal water supply sourced from the "Coal River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM), used to wash coal and remove impurities that contribute to pollution when coal is burned. The first estimate was that 5,000 …

• Evan Jenkins

  … , compared with Rahall’s 44.7 percent. In his successful campaign, Jenkins steadily criticized President Obama for supporting a “War on Coal” and called for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. He also pledged to defend the rights of gun …

• Vulcan Bridge

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1831, asking if the Soviet Union could help build a bridge there. Vulcan had once been a thriving coal camp, but the population dwindled with the local loss of mining jobs. The town was built on the main line of the & …

• Flood of 2016

  … only by the 1972 "Buffalo Creek Disaster":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/697 in Logan County, where a coal slurry settling pond dam collapsed, sending 132 million gallons of water down a narrow, heavily populated valley, killing 125; the …

• Sam Jones

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1504, as a young boy with his family so his grandfather could pursue work in the coal mines. Before taking up baseball, Jones won the state marble-shooting championship in 1937 and played football and basketball as …

• Flood of 1916

  … for cooler weather and showers that day. Coal communities, mines and railroad tracks lined … nearby Paint Creek and the Little Coal River, but death and destruction were … the swollen stream. Along the Little Coal River, a train carrying 210 picnickers …

• Glen Alum Payroll Robbery

  … $7,000 cash payroll for the Glen Alum Coal Co. The arrival of the money, … to travel the spur track leading to the coal company offices several miles up Glen Alum … car. Somewhere between the depot and the coal company offices, the men spotted a barricade of …