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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GB4_oakwood-mine-complex_Scarbro-WV.html
White Oak Fuel Company built the Oakwood Mine Complex in 1902. In 1915, 21 miners died when gas in the mine exploded. A year later, the original wooden tipple was upgraded to a multi-story steel structure. New River Company ran the mine after abso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN0O_coal-camp-history_Scarbro-WV.html
With railroads came thousands of workers looking to make a new life in the coalfields. In the late 1800's and well into the mid-1900's, many Appalachian miners lived in company towns called "Coal Camps".
Mine operators built company-owned towns…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN0J_mossy_Scarbro-WV.html
1913-Union organizer Mary "Mother" Jones imprisoned in Pratt.
1913-Approximate location of the striking miners tent colony that was fired on by mine guards wielding a machine gun mounted on the "Bull Moose" special train
1919-7 miners are ki…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN0H_the-rebirth-of-paint-creek_Scarbro-WV.html
Soon after settlers arrived in Paint Creek, the landscape and population changed forever with the discovery of coal. Within just a few years, mines began operating at Paint Creek under the ownership of New York businessman William Henry Greene. Gr…