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• Tucker County

  … , the county school system, Regency West Virginia Ventures, Mettiki Coal, "Timberline Four Seasons Resort":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … that business. The playing out of jobs in "coal mines":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 …

• Battle of the Tug

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/835 launched a campaign to unionize southern West Virginia, including the Tug Fork coalfield. The local coal operators were determined to keep the UMW out. Miners who joined the union were fired, evicted from their company- …

• Cecil Underwood

  … jobless by the mechanization of the coal industry, a statewide property reappraisal, … a position with "Island Creek Coal Company":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … positions including the presidency of Princess Coal in Huntington. As Underwood pursued …

• George W. Imboden

  … , had already established himself politically in Virginia. George acted as attorney and served as a director of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, the Loup Creek Colliery, and the Deepwater Railway. Imboden served Ansted and Fayette County from 1870 to …

• John D. Imboden

  … development of mining resources in his area. He was the business partner and older brother of "George W. Imboden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/831, a Fayette County coal operator. John D. Imboden died at Damascus, Virginia.

• Immigration Commissioner

  … need for labor for West Virginia’s burgeoning industries, especially coal mining. The legislature reactivated the position in 1897. Funding … , and Nugent’s salary and expenses were underwritten by coal companies from 1907 to 1913. Nugent visited England, …

• United Mine Workers of America

  … markets from nonunion West Virginia, the coal operators of the Central Competitive … a bloody confrontation. During World War I, coal production expanded in West Virginia, … the union and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. The union nevertheless …

• Upshur County

  … a few miles of Interstate 79. "Coal mining":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1711 built his "Coal & Coke Railway":http://www. … the 20th century. In 1901, the first coal was commercially mined, at Lorentz by …

• Virginian Railway

  … as a major transporter of coal from southern West Virginia. The … of one of the largest coal mines on the Virginian line, … locomotives and 120-ton gondola coal cars, the Virginian moved the world’s longest and heaviest coal trains through large rail yards …

• Clarence W. Watson

  … the Fairmont field to form the Fairmont Coal Company, which operated 28 mines and … until January 1919. He returned to the coal business after the war. Serving as … of the board, Watson made "Consolidation Coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles …

• James O. Watson

  … in a single corporation, the Fairmont Coal Company, the predecessor of industry giant … Sylvanus Lamb, became prominent in the coal industry. Son James Edwin Watson … the Fairmont Development Company, the Consolidation Coal Company, and other concerns. In …

• Italians

  … immigrants were employed in the coal industry as pick-and-shovel … hopelessly in debt by unscrupulous coal companies, West Virginia Italians were … by hand 48 tons of coal in one day and 52 … numbers were involved in digging coal, West Virginia’s Italians were …

• Itmann Company Store

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/876, the Itmann operation was highly productive, shipping two million tons of high-quality ‘‘smokeless’’ coal each year during the 1950s, and employing 1,800 West Virginians. At the center of the company town, was …

• Webster County

  … org/articles/1802, and the "coal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … industry was in decline, but coal mining boomed during "World … 4.5 million tons of coal was produced in Webster County … II saw a decline of coal industry employment and a " …

• Welch

  … . The report stimulated a movement of coal entrepreneurs into the county, and by … through the boom years of "coal mining":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … with the "mechanization of the coal industry":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Welch Community Hospital

  … state hospitals for people engaged in dangerous occupations, particularly "coal mining":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349. … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/280, a future governor, was a coal camp physician who helped secure funding for the …

• Isaiah Welch

  … Hotchkiss":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/499, Welch surveyed the mineral reserves of the rich Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam in southern West Virginia in 1873. He published his endorsement of the investment opportunities in Hotchkiss’s journal, …

• George L. Carter

  … as the Clinchfield, a major shipper of coal in southwest Virginia and neighboring West … Kentucky. Carter developed extensive iron and coal operations in Virginia before turning his … years after Carter’s death. Carter Coal Company was sold to Youngstown Sheet …

• Don Chafin

  … bitter foe of union organizers and, with financial support from coal companies, used his many deputies to keep labor organizers out … building, renamed it the Chafin Building, and operated the Chafin Coal Company as well as many other business interests. In …

• Joy Loading Machine

  … the labor-intensive job of hand-loading coal, the Joy loading machine helped revolutionize … , and was more adaptable to various coal seams and different mining conditions. A … various models dominated the market for coal-loading equipment for decades. Some of …

• West Virginia Mine Workers Union

  … called off in the middle of August. During this time Keeney was as much revered by southern West Virginia’s rank and file coal miners as was "John L. Lewis":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1366 in later years. The Mine Workers Union …

• Kanawha County

  … to industrial production. Timber and particularly coal production were stimulated by the … Kanawha. Several branch railroads opened numerous coal camps and made the county … Attracted by abundant water, salt brines, coal, gas, and petroleum, the government …

• Cheat Lake

  … during the 19th century, at and around "Ices Ferry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/830. That industry and the coal mining which followed in the 20th century degraded the Cheat River. By the 1950s, few fish were left. Conservation efforts …

• Kanawha Salines

  … furnaces and salt well rigs crowded the riverbank, and tramways brought coal from mines in the nearby hills. Up to 1,500 … noise of steam engines and machinery, the almost constant presence of coal smoke, ash particles, and cinders, and the dismal appearance. …

• Kanawha State Forest

  … at the mouth of Shrewsbury Hollow to begin development of the area. The CCC removed all of the abandoned houses, coal tipples, and other structures no longer in use, and constructed roads, the forest superintendent’s residence, office, maintenance …