Coal Mining | Alabama Legacy Moments
Experiencing both boom and bust, the coal-mining industry has played an huge role in Alabama's economy. During the 1840s, entrepreneurs discovered four large coal fields and soon vastly expanded the state's …
Alabama Coal Company Sued for a Home Explosion That …
As an Alabama mine has slowly approached the coal seam under her home, Riley's anxiety has sometimes gotten the best of her. In late April, after a mine representative visited her home, the 90 ...
Presidential Pickings Black Coal Miners in Alabama in …
A Publication of the Mining History Association Summer 2022 Presidential Pickings Black Coal Miners in Alabama in the Gilded Age Our 2022 MHA conference in Birmingham, Alabama, was a great success despite the residual, and now increasing, effects of COVID that limited our attendance. More importantly, the presentations
History of Brilliant, Alabama
History of Brilliant, Alabama Coal Miner Memorial Marker. The Town of Brilliant is located in the southeastern portion of Marion County along Alabama Highway 129, approximately 15 miles southeast of Hamilton, the county seat, 10 miles west of the Winston and Walker county lines, and 7 miles north of the Fayette county line.
The ghostly remains of Praco, Alabama's last coal …
The 1981 article said, "The president, Gene W. , points out that the Praco coal mines were closed 24 years ago, that his company is probably the last coal outfit in Alabama still providing ...
Black Warrior Riverkeeper
For a map of Alabama's coal geology, click here. For historical information about coal mining in Alabama, click here. For information about citizens' rights under Alabama surface mining laws, click here. Strip mine and …
Alabama Mining Museum
Focusing on the total concept of coal mining in Alabama from 1890 to 1940. In 1984 the Alabama Mining Museum was designated by the Alabama State Senate as "The Official …
Alabama coal miners have spent 20 months on strike
Alabama coal miners have spent 20 months on strike The miners have survived more than 600 days on the picket line, thanks to widespread support and anger at their employer, Warrior Met Coal. Even ...
What's next for Alabama coal miners off the
March of this year marked the end of what was called the longest strike in Alabama history. Coal miners for the Warrior Met company in Brookwood put down their picket signs and resumed the job that some had done for decades. However, these workers say they got something other than a victory at the bargaining table.
Montevallo, AL
Located on the grounds of the museum is the only monument to coal miners in Alabama, installed in 1997. Both of the buildings in the museum complex are listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. ... Emfinger returned to live in the Aldrich community and immerse himself in its coal-mining history. The former Montevallo Coal Mining ...
Alabama Surface Mining Commission
Alabama Surface Mining Commission. The Alabama Surface Mining Commission is the primary regulatory authority for Surface and Underground Coal Mining Operations for the State of Alabama under …
Alabama Mining Museum
See 1900s trains and mining cars. Focusing on the total concept of coal mining in Alabama from 1890 to 1940. In 1984 the Alabama Mining Museum was designated by the Alabama State Senate as "The Official State Coal Mining Museum of Alabama." Hours: Tues.- Sat. 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Free admission.
Alabama Coal Mine Keeps Digging Under A Rural …
The situation in Alabama atop the Oak Grove Mine "has become a wake-up call" across Appalachian communities that sit atop coal mines, reminding residents and coal companies alike about some of ...
Alabama Mine Accident Index (updated 24 Mar 2014) …
Russell L. & Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines Years covered: 1891, 1895-1902, 1905-07, 1909-50. ... Web1 Alabama Coal Mine Fatalities Database (1900-1938). Birmingham Public Library, AL [website]. Web2 ia, AL Mine Explosion, Feb 1905. Alabama Disasters: Tragic Accidents & Deaths.
Mining Labor
Mining operations in Alabama have focused primarily on the extraction of iron ore and coal. These raw materials, combined with limestone, constitute the key ingredients in the production of pig iron and steel. The existence of all three components within a 10-mile radius of Jones Valley contributed to the meteoric growth of the region …
As Alabama coal miners strike nears end, a look at why it
The United Mine Workers of America, the union at the center of the purported longest strike in Alabama's history, asked Warrior Met Coal to allow the miners to return to work at the company's ...
Coal Mining and Labor Conflict – Energy History
The industry's cyclical nature meant that mining employment also could be irregular and precarious. Coal camp living conditions were often squalid, with social life dominated by the company and basic freedoms of speech, movement, and assembly restricted by private mine guards and company-paid sheriffs. Mining coal was incredibly dangerous work.
From an Alabama Coal Mine Strike to an Amazon …
Hard dangerous work is a part of Mr. Wright's extended family history and that of many people living in this industrial and mining belt of north central Alabama. Next to the coal mine where Mr ...
Alabama Mines
Coal mining operations enjoyed high demand and constant work during World War I and World War II. The introduction of improved mechanization made surface mining a more profitable undertaking than underground …
Unique Heritage
Brookside's Unique History "Brookside, Alabama, a quiet mining town in western Jefferson County, developed from the efforts of Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Company to produce its own coal for use in the blast furnaces …
Blocton
Chronicles the history of a community built on coal In 1883 two entrepreneurs—Truman Aldrich, a New York engineer, and Cornelius Cadle, a former Union Army... Skip to content. Home; Books. ... The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town. by Charles Edward Adams. 360 Pages, 8.50 x 11.00 x 1.50 in, 246 illus. Hardcover; 9780817317775; …
Alabama Mining Museum
The goal of the Alabama Mining Museum is to preserve the legacy of coal mining in Alabama's history during the years of 1890 and 1940, when coal mining …
A Coal Miner's Political Transformation
For more than 500 days, coal miners in rural Alabama have been on strike. Around 900 workers walked off the job in April 2021, and they haven't been back since.
Tracing the Alabama Coal Fields | Worlds Revealed
The Cahaba coal field was surveyed by Joseph Squire in 1890, with a revised map published in 1905 in partnership with the Geological Survey of Alabama. This …
Blocton: The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town …
"Blocton" is a beautiful, 8 1/2" x 11" cloth bound book with 240 photographs, most previously unpublished. The saga begins with two entrepreneurs, Truman Aldrich and Cornelius Cadle, who created the Cahaba Coal Mining Company and pushed a railroad eight miles into the wilderness of Bibb County, Alabama to tap thick veins of coal deep …
Alabama Mining Museum
Focusing on the total concept of coal mining in Alabama from 1890 to 1940. In 1984 the Alabama Mining Museum was designated by the Alabama State Senate as "The Official State Coal Mining Museum of Alabama." Hours: Tues.- …
Alabama Mining Museum
The Alabama Mining Museum is located in Dora, Walker County, in a former high school gymnasium.The museum was founded to interpret the legacy of coal mining in Alabama during the years of 1890 and 1940 and features displays of memorabilia and equipment related to the area's mining history from 1890 to 1940 as well as a collection of items …
Alabama Mines
Alabama coal mining, Alabama mining, Birmingham Alabama. ALABAMA MINES. The discovery of coal along Alabama's rivers can be traced back to 1815, when several veterans of the Battle of New Orleans made their way into present-day central Alabama. In the 1820s, Levi Reid and James Grindle settled at the Locust Fork of the Warrior River, …
AS Williams III Alabama Coal and Iron records
The Pratt Consolidated Coal Company was created in 1904 by combining the Pratt Coal Company, Nunley Ridge Coal Company, Ivy Coal and Iron Company, Gamble Mines Company, Townley Mining Company, and Tracy City mines. The company's holdings consisted of fifty-four mines and 85,000 acres of land in Alabama and Tennessee.
Why the longest coal strike in Alabama history …
Striking union coal miners attend a rally at the local union hall on August 31, 2022 in Brookwood, Alabama. The United Mine Workers of America has been on strike against the Warrior Met Coal ...