Carrying Coal to Columbus: Mining in the Hocking Valley - Hardcover

Meyers, David; Walker, Elise Meyers; Vollmer, Nyla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1540214621 ISBN 13: 9781540214621

Verlag: History Press Library Editions, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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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A life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio, David Meyers is the author of more than a dozen books of nonfiction, as well as several novels and various works for the stage, including two full-length musicals, The Last Christmas Carol and The Last Oz Story.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: History Press Library Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1540214621
• ISBN 13: 9781540214621
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178
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