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Galatia is named for Albert Gallatin. [2] The village was established as a tobacco farming hub in the mid-1800s. Tobacco grown in the area was hauled to Shawneetown to be shipped along the Ohio River. Two coal mines opened near Galatia in the early 1900s, the Harco Mine and the Galatia Colliers Mine. [3]
Kerr-McGee Coal Corporation's Galatia Complex was purchased by the American Coal Company in 1998. [31] American Coal employed about 580 workers, while Arclar employed 175 persons. Nationwide Glove Factory employed 225 persons, and American Needle was the second-largest non-coal company with 125 workers.
The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending approximately 400 miles (640 km) northwest-southeast, and 200 miles (320 km) southwest-northeast.
Saline County is a county in Southern Illinois.At the 2020 census, it had a population of 23,768. [1] The largest city and county seat is Harrisburg. [2] This area of Southern Illinois is known locally as "Little Egypt".
Galatia Township is located in Saline County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,230 and it contained 592 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,230 and it contained 592 housing units.
Harco was founded based on discovery of coal. The first coal was hoisted January 6, 1918. In later years, it was known as the Saline County Coal Corporation, and later as the Peabody Coal Company Mine No. 47. Harco was plotted June 24, 1919, with the plate showing 121 lots 50 by 140 feet (43 m).
Foundation Coal [6] Surface Wyoming 15,826,344 Freedom Mine: North American Coal Corporation [7] Surface North Dakota: 14,716,777 Buckskin Mine: Kiewit Corporation [8] Surface Wyoming 14,517,853 Mc 1 Mine: M-Class Mining: Underground Illinois: 12,812,197 Spring Creek Coal Company: Cloud Peak Energy [5] Surface Montana
Plant Bowen, the third-largest coal-fired power station in the United States. This is a list of the 211 operational coal-fired power stations in the United States.. Coal generated 16% of electricity in the United States in 2023, [1] an amount less than that from renewable energy or nuclear power, [2] [3] and about half of that generated by natural gas plants.