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• Babcock Lumber Company

  … board feet per day. With timber, "coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … included a stone quarry for local construction, coal mines to fuel the steam logging … a double band sawmill at Landisburg, coal mines at Clifftop, "coke ovens& …

• The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency

  … in the early years of the "coal industry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … sheriffs to maintain law and order, but coal operators increasingly used them to prevent … guards kept union sympathizers from entering the coal camps. They spied on miners, …

• Hawks Nest Strike

  … conflict with state officials as well as coal operators. The strike began when operators … the nearby Hawks Nest mines. Miners from Coal Valley then stopped miners at Hawks … 12 and quickly restored order. Several Coal Valley miners were charged in Fayette …

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

  … the mountains west of that city, coal traffic to Baltimore became the … the nation’s Tidewater-bound soft coal; by 1896, it hauled only … /articles/1407 and the "Coal & Coke Railway":http … 1950s, but the decline of coal mining along its lines and …

• Barbour County

  … on its natural resources, including "coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … /1341 remain important industries. Oil and coal no longer contribute as greatly to … in Barbour County were, respectively, Arch Coal, the county school system, Hometown …

• Ken Hechler

  … He served 18 years in the House of Representatives, specializing in coal mine health and safety and protection of the environment. … .org/articles/2241 enabled passage of the federal "Coal Mine Health and Safety Act":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Bartley Mine Disaster

  … mine, operating in the Pocahontas No. 4 coal seam at a depth of nearly 600 … was owned by the Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal Company, an "Island Creek Coal Company … fatal explosion, finding that the normally explosive coal dust, having been treated with rock …

• Short-Line Railroads

  … , the Mann’s Creek Railroad, carried coal from Clifftop to coke ovens in … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 absorbed several coal railroads south of Thurmond, and others … Northern remained independent, beginning as a coal hauler in 1899 and finally quitting …

• History of West Virginia

  … timbering, flatboat construction, barrel making, and coal mining. The "first iron … to industrial growth. By 1913, annual coal production exceeded 28 million tons. … economy. As extractive industries, particularly coal, gained a prominent place in …

• Beckley

  … of Raleigh County’s rich bituminous "coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … fluctuated with those of the "coal industry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … County Memorial Airport. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine is located at the …

• Mary Behner

  … 1928 until 1937, Behner worked in the coal camps along "Scotts Run":http … operations had fallen victim to the depressed coal market of the late 1920s. Thousands … had died for want of milk, castigated coal operators for ignoring their workers’ needs …

• Benwood Mine Disaster

  … , 1924, the workday was just beginning at the Benwood coal mine south of "Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … daily routine of preparing their work areas and undercutting the coal, an explosion ripped through the "Wheeling Steel Corporation …

• Homer Adams Holt

  … choice for governor in the next election, in opposition to Holt’s candidate, R. Carl Andrews. Akin to his position on coal strikes was Holt’s philosophical stance on the New Deal policies of the national Democratic Party. He aligned himself with the ‘‘ …

• Joseph Lawton Beury

  … coalfields. In 1873, he shipped the first coal from the New River Coalfield. Beury … to the new southern West Virginia "coal industry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … , he and others opened Mill Creek Coal & Coke, the first mine in …

• Hominy Falls Mine Disaster

  At approximately 10 a.m. May 6, 1968, a continuous miner machine at the Gauley Coal & Coke Saxsewell No. 8 mine in Nicholas County cut into an unmapped adjacent mine, which was filled with water. The resulting inundation drowned four miners and trapped …

• Big Sandy River

  … thick forest, rugged terrain, and bituminous "coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … rail to the Midwest and to the coal-shipping docks of Norfolk. Thereafter, … region’s rich deposits of bituminous coal became the main economic activity of …

• Birds

  … was 77 percent forested. Road building, "surface mining":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/645 for coal, housing developments, waterway impoundments, and the introduction of "multiflora rose":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Jedediah Hotchkiss

  … Hotchkiss devoted most of his time to furthering the development of the natural resources of the two Virginia's, in particular the coal-bearing areas of West Virginia. In 1871, he explored the newly extended "Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad":http …

• Black Knight Country Club

  … general manager and vice president of Raleigh Coal & Coke, offered more than 60 … was limited to those prominent in "coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … match at Black Knight. In 1950, Raleigh Coal & Coke ceased operations, and the …

• Black Lung Disease

  … lung disease, results from the inhalation of coal dust. Human anatomy filters out the … blood. Over time, inhaling substantial quantities of coal particles causes the air sacs to … tool for diagnosing the medical effects of coal dust in the lungs. Black lung …

• Black Lung Movement

  … coalfields in the late 1960s. As coal mining expanded, more workers exhibited symptoms … condition. Even though Great Britain recognized coal-related pneumoconiosis as a compensatory … work. Under pressure from hundreds of coal miners at the capitol, the …

• Battle of Blair Mountain

  In August 1921, armed coal miners from the Kanawha Valley and the southern counties of Boone, Fayette, … , quickly organized a group of state police, volunteer militia companies, and coal company employees to keep the miners from invading Logan County. The …

• Mother Blizzard

  … early life on the family farm and witnessed the advent of coal mining in southern West Virginia following the coming of the … children to participate in union activities. Her support for the 1902 coal strike led to her family’s eviction from their home in …

• Battle of Stanaford

  … by a federal grand jury in January 1903. The Battle of Stanaford was a concluding episode in the 1902 New River Coal strike, and a precursor of bloodier events to follow during the "West Virginia Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Blizzard Treason Trial

  … agreed to move the trials to Charles Town, Jefferson County, in the Eastern Panhandle and far from the coalfields. Coal company attorneys composed the prosecution team. "Thomas Townsend":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/752, former Kanawha …