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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM115T_colonel-edward-cook_Belle-Vernon-PA.html
Settling here in the 1770s, Cook became a prominent landholder, jurist, and politician. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in Philadelphia in 1776 and served at the State Constitutional Convention. Although a moderate during the Whiskey Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM115S_darr-mine-disaster_Belle-Vernon-PA.html
On December 19, 1907, an explosion killed 239 men and boys, many Hungarian immigrants, in Darr coal mine near Van Meter. Some were from the closed Naomi mine, near Fayette City, which exploded on Dec. 1, killing 34. Over 3000 miners died in Decemb…