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A WVGenWeb Special Project
Disaster at Montcoal, WV
More information on the coal mines of West Virginia is one of the most
frequent requests made. If you have information you would like to share with
others, please send it to Gracie Stover.
Please put WV Coal Mines in the subject field, so it won't get lost in all my email.
Coal mines have had a definite impact on what West Virginia was and is
today. It is a part of us, as it was a part of our ancestors. I beleive
that in understanding what our ancestors went through, and how they lived
will help us in understanding ourselves. I also beleive that this site
has the potential to help others understand us better, whether they
themselves have roots in WV or not.
Miner's Memorial and Obits
Miners' Wives Memorial and Obits
How to Research Your Miner
It's dark as a dungeon and damp
as the dew,
Where the danger is double and
pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and
the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down
in the mine.
---Merle Travis, "Dark as a Dungeon"
Photo
courtesy of the Library of Congress,
American Memories Collection
Page designed January, 1999 BY Gracie Stover
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visitor since 12 May 1999. Thanks for stopping by!
It's dark as a dungeon and damp
as the dew,
Where the danger is double and
pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and
the sun never shines,
It's dark as a dungeon way down
in the mine.
---Merle Travis, "Dark as a Dungeon"
Photo
courtesy of the Library of Congress,
American Memories Collection
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Page designed January, 1999 BY Gracie Stover
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