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The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine wars era began with the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike of 1912–1913. [1] With help from Mary "Mother Jones" Harris Jones, an important figure in unionizing the mine workers, the miners ...
The Hobet 21 Coal Mine site is currently defunct and in 2016, former West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin proposed developing the environmentally degraded former coal field. [1] This residential, industrial and commercial development plan is intended to offset the economic impacts from the declining coal industry, but has been called "a long ...
88000266 [1] Added to NRHP. March 25, 1988. Phillips-Sprague Mine, also known as the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, is a historic coal mine located at New River Park in Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. The mine opened about 1889 on what had been operated as a drift mine. Commercial development of the drift mine began in 1905 and the first ...
The following table lists the coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal.. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were 853 coal mines in the U.S. in 2015, producing a total of 896,941,000 short tons of coal.
Pocahontas Coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County / McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. [1] The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in Pocahontas, Virginia in 1883 [2] at Pocahontas Mine No. 1, now on the National Register of Historic Places. The coal ...
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [5] [6] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
Pocahontas Coalfield is a large high quality coal deposit in Mercer County/McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. [4] The deposit mining started in 1883 in Pocahontas, Virginia [5] at Pocahontas Mine No. 1, now on the National Register of Historic Places. The coal seams—Pocahontas No. 3, No. 4, No. 6, and No. 11—are ...
The New River Coalfield is located in northeastern Raleigh County and southern Fayette County, West Virginia. Commercial mining of coal began in the 1870s and thrived into the 20th century. The coal in this field is a low volatile coal, known as "smokeless" coals. [1] The seams of coal that have been mined include Sewell, Fire Creek, and Beckley.