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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XMI_fraterville-disaster-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
The Fraterville Mine exploded on May 19, 1902, killing all 216 miners. Poignant farewell messages were found on the bodies of Jacob Vowell, Powell Harmon, John Hendren, Harry Beach, Scott Chapman, James Brooks, R.S. Brooks, George Hutson, Frank Sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XME_itinerant-miners-cemetery-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Itinerant miners worked in the Fraterville Mine alongside miners with long-term contracts and strong local ties. Bodies of the itinerant miners were not claimed after the 1902 explosion and were buried adjacent to the railroad spur that led to the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XMD_village-of-brothers-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Major Eldad Cicero Camp, a Civil War Union veteran, U.S. District Attorney, and businessman, never used convicts in his mines. Instead, he established contracts with experienced miners. Fraterville, the name of Major Camp's first mine and the surr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJA_militia-hill-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Fort Anderson was built here on Militia Hill in January 1892 as a base for the Tennessee National Guard to protect convict laborers and restore order. Hostilities escalated with as many as 2500 miners from Tennessee and Kentucky participating in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ9_breastworks-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Soldiers of the Tennessee National Guard became easy targets for miners positioned on higher ground after trees were cut from Fort Anderson. Convicts then dug these breastworks to provide cover from attacking miners.
War correspondents from nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ8_american-chestnuts-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Convicts cut trees from Militia Hill and surrounding hillsides in 1892 so soldiers could spot attacking miners. Many of those trees were American chestnuts. Convicts and soldiers could not know that a fungus carried by Chinese chestnuts, brought t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ7_fire-on-coal-creek-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Soldiers responded to attack by firing cannons from here into the Miners Nest encampment on Walden Ridge, located south of the Wye Gap. Soldiers also shot cans filled with mud through the Wye Gap into the town of Coal Creek to signal that the town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ5_state-coal-mine-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
The arrival of General Carnes with the bulk of the state militia overwhelmed the miners by the late summer of 1892. Although they lost the final battle, Coal Creek miners won the war when newly-elected Gov. Peter Turney fulfilled a campaign promis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ4_siege-on-fort-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
The Tennessee Coal Mining Company in Briceville dismissed convict labor in February 1892 and sold stock in the company to miners. Subsequent attempts to convince Gov. Buchanan to remove troops from the watershed failed, so miners attacked at this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XJ2_the-coal-creek-war-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Coal Creek valley was the scene of an armed rebellion against the state by free miners seeking an end to the common practice of leasing convicts to coal companies. On Oct. 31, 1891 the convict laborers at Briceville were freed by armed miners. The…