Coal mining - camps and company towns.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Howard Burton Lee (1879-1985) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2139
Overview
Correspondence and photographs used by Lee, who was a lawyer and attorney general of West Virginia, in the writing of his book, BLOODLETTING IN APPALACHIA, 1969, concerning the coalfields of West Virginia and the attempts by miners to unionize. The photographs show individuals, coal camps, mine guards, and scenes from the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek area in 1912-1913, Matewan, and Monongalia County during the 1925-1929 period. Correspondents include Gordon C. Felts, Coleman A. Hatfield, Henry D....
Dates:
1912-1964
Howard P. Wade, Author, Study Regarding Eckman, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3839
Overview
Two chapters of a study by Howard P. Wade, D.A., titled "Eckman: A Coal Camp in McDowell County, West Virginia", regarding the late 18th century African Americans immigrants to the McDowell County coal camp of Eckman, their origins, social and religious organizations, and experiences assimilating to the coal fields, as well as African American life in Eckman between the years of 1892 and 1942.
Dates:
undated
John and Robert Thompson Diaries
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1881
Overview
Diary and account book, 1804-1811, of John Thompson containing accounts of items bought and sold, money owed by and to Thompson, two journeys on the Mississippi River between Nashville, Natchez, and New Orleans, 1804-1805, and numerous remedies for diseases and medical complaints. There is a second diary by Robert C. Thompson, a Confederate soldier, from August 1862 to February 1863. Robert Thompson was a member of a Tennessee unit, imprisoned at Camp Morton, exchanged in September 1862, and...
Dates:
1804-1811, 1862-1863
Keystone, Historic Buildings Survey, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1151
Overview
Building inventories, photo Xeroxes and indexes, street maps, taped interviews and summary reports of a historic buildings survey of Keystone by the WVU Public History Program in conjunction with the Historic Preservation Unit of the WV Dept. of Culture & History. The study of this McDowell County community provides "a basic architectural history of one southern coal town". Additionally, the oral histories and narrative report provide a more complete history than contained in typical...
Dates:
1987-1988
McDowell County, Caretta and Coalwood, History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3337
Overview
Typed 23 page manuscript history of the McDowell County coal mining communities of Caretta and Coalwood by Homer Hickam, the author of Rocket Boys. Caretta and Coalwood were started early in the twentieth century as coal camps by the mine operator George L. Carter. The fortunes of both towns represent the economic cyclical nature of mining throughout the twentieth century reflective of many coal field communities within the state.
Dates:
1983
Scotts Run Community Center Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0652
Overview
Scotts Run Community Center scrapbook containing photographs, clippings, attendance statistics, and a survey of families. The survey documents families inhabiting the area, indicating their nationalities, religious affiliations, and number of children. The Scotts Run Community Center, known as 'The Shack,' was started in 1928 under the auspices of the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Particularly active during the height of the Depression, its organized...
Dates:
1927-1938
Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview
UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates:
1908-1961