(Wikipedia) The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the Am...

(Wikipedia) The Buffalo Creek Flood was an incident that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry i...

(Bluefield Daily Telegraph) Some of the bloodiest and most important moments in the American labor movement happened in the coalfields of so...

(Aegis) ... She said the quarry dates back to the 1840s, when speculators from Lancaster County started moving west to York County. Slate...

(Wikipedia) The Klondike Gold Rush, sometimes referred to as the Yukon gold rush, was a frenzied gold rush that drew thousands of would-...

(Providence College) The "Molly Maguires" were miners in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania who organized into a union dur...

(Wikipedia) The first observance of Father's Day actually took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. It was organized by Mrs...

(Baltimore Sun) The wreck of the Clara Nevada in Alaskan waters at the height of the Klondike gold rush in 1898 has a Baltimore connection a...

(Baltimore Sun) A new company offering tours of West Virginia's coalfields has added a second trip for the fall as well as two railroad ...

1946 ARC Identifier 12505 / Local Identifier 70.218. This documentary film starts with the history of the steelmaking process, explaining th...

(wvmetronews.com) The Coal House, which was built back in 1933, housed the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce and served as an unofficial museum...

(LoC) On October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt met with miners and coalfield operators from the anthracite coalfields in Pennsylvani...

(Mail Online) ... A single 'hurrier' pulled the heavy cart of coal, weighing as much as 500lb, attached by a chain to a belt worn ar...

(Summit Times) On September 10, 1897, at half past three in the afternoon, a group of over 400 striking immigrant coal miners marched toward...

(LoC) The major financial catalyst for the panic of 1857 was the August 24, 1857, failure of the New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance ...

(LoC) Frederick Law Olmsted, nineteenth-century America's foremost landscape architect, was born on April 26, 1822. Son of a well-to-do ...

(Wikipedia) The Buffalo Creek Flood was an incident that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry imp...

(NYTimes) ... As I discovered on a three-day trip this year, the passage, which travels 132 miles from McKeesport, Pa., to Cumberland, Md., ...

(mental floss) By 1879 Bodie boasted a population of 10,000 and was second to none for wickedness, badmen and “the worst climate out of door...

(Baltimore Sun) - ... At the end of Church Lane, just off York Road in Cockeysville, Brighton is leading about a dozen archaeology students ...