Lincoln County (W. Va.)
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Charles H. Freeman, (1854-1919), Engineer, Letter Book
Engineer and pioneer of the Griffithsville oil fields in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Freeman and William H. Yawkey were active in the development of oil and coal lands along the Guyandotte River and in Mason County, West Virginia. Correspondence concerns the Big Creek Development Co., Yawkey and Freeman Co., Ltd., Yawkey and Freeman Drilling Co., and Pond Creek Coal Co.
County Highway Maps for West Virginia
Eugene Levassor Papers
Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers
Paul Salstrom, Interviewer, Oral Histories with Lincoln County Residents And Other Material
Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers
Topographic Maps of West Virginia
Woodrow Mosley, Coal Miner, Interview Transcript
Transcript of an interview with a retired coal miner of Lincoln County, WV. Mosley lived and worked in the coal fields of Logan County, WV and Pike County, KY most of his life. He started to work in 1929 when mining was still done by pick and shovel and retired in the early sixties when mining had become mechanized. He describes the changes in mining technology he experienced and the effect of unionization in the coal mining region of southern West Virginia.