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Carrying Coal to Columbus
Mining in the Hocking Valley
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Carrying Coal to Columbus
Mining in the Hocking Valley
About this book
As early as 1755, explorers found coal deposits in Ohio's Hocking Valley. The industry that followed created towns and canals and established a new way of life. The first shipment of coal rolled into Columbus in 1830 and has continued ever since. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus. Lorenzo D. Poston became the first of the Hocking Valley coal barons, and by the start of the twentieth century, at least fifty thousand coal miners and their families lived and worked in Athens, Hocking and Perry Counties. Authors David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker and Nyla Vollmer detail the hard work and struggles as they unfolded in Ohio's capital and the Little Cities of Black Diamonds.
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Yes, you can access Carrying Coal to Columbus by David Meyers,Elise Meyers Walker & Nyla Vollmer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction, by David Meyers
- 1. Fits and Starts
- 2. Visionaries and Speculators
- 3. Crossties and Tycoons
- 4. Movers and Shakers
- 5. Hearth and Stack
- 6. Boom and Bust
- 7. Syndicate and Exchange
- 8. Man and Machine
- 9. Women and Children
- 10. Pride and Prejudice
- 11. Division and Union
- 12. Strike and Strife
- 13. Regroup and Retrench
- 14. Lead and Follow
- 15. Shadows and Ghosts
- 16. Death and Disaster
- 17. Past and Future
- Afterword, by Elise Meyers Walker
- Appendix I. Workers and Bosses
- Appendix II. Come All You Jolly Miners
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Authors