Cumberland, B.C. was built on coal mining—both literally and practically. Thousands of workers were employed and millions of ...

Learn how coal played a vital role in shaping the Utah we know today. The coal mining industry has been the backbone of rural parts of Utah for over a century. From extraction to refining, Utahns who ...

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

Tennessee state prison system. The eastern fringe of the Cumberland Mountains extending from Anderson County south into the Tennessee Valley toward Whitwell and surrounding mining communities has long ...

Himlerville, Kentucky circa 1920. Himlerville was the coal camp for the Himler Coal company, a cooperatively owned mining operation in Martin County. Many of Himlerville’s original buildings still ...

Jun. 22—In West Virginia, where the Appalachian storytelling tradition still hangs in the hollows and along the ridgetops like a whisper of morning fog, it's not just the tale. It's the person who ...

A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of the Grove City Historical Society to the ...

Jun. 17—GROVE CITY — The Grove City Area Historical Society opened its second new exhibit this year as part of its speaker series June 3. The speakers were those who spearheaded the project — Mining ...

IN PREPARING for the commemoration of the Pancoast Mine Disaster of 1911, members of the Anthracite Heritage Museum were drawn to other major accidents of that year as well. In researching museum ...

This has enormous potential as a sustainable energy source. Schemes such as the mine water district heat network in Gateshead ...