Layland is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Layland is located on West Virginia Route 41, 6.5 miles (10.5 km)...
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Layland may refer to: Layland, Ohio, unincorporated community in Ohio, United States Layland, West Virginia, unincorporated community in West Virginia...
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Anthracite from the Northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Region and later from West Virginia was valued for household use because it burns cleanly with little ash...
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Monongah mining disaster (category Coal mining disasters in West Virginia)
6, 1907, at Fairmont Coal Company's Nos. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia, which killed 362 miners. It has been described as "the worst mining...
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doi:10.2307/3115362. ISSN 0007-6805. Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters. Robert E Hartley, David Kenney. Southern Illinois...
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in Alabama explosion on December 16, the Monongah Mining disaster in West Virginia on December 6 that killed 362 miners and the Naomi Mine explosion on...
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West Frankfort is a city in Franklin County, Illinois. The population was 7,275 at the 2020 census. The city is well known for its rich history of coal...
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valley slicing between Walden Ridge to the east and Vowell Mountain to the west. Tennessee State Route 116 connects Fraterville with Briceville to the south...
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plane crash still linger". ECP. Lawrence Messina (April 5, 2010). "West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion: 25 Dead After Massey Blast". Huffingtonpost.com...
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(abandoned) Fire Creek (abandoned) Glen Jean Harvey Kay Moor (abandoned) Kilsyth Layland Lawton (abandoned) Lochgelly MacDonald Minden Mount Hope Newlyn (abandoned)...
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Mary Hughes Stebner Ford. Allen, James B. The Company Town in the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. A good general discussion, with...
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Fayette County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,488. Its county seat is Fayetteville. It is...
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a canvas brattice was fashioned on the east gangway to direct air to the west gangway. More victims were discovered there, notably seven men who sealed...
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Eccles mine disaster (category West Virginia articles missing geocoordinate data)
of coal-seam methane that took place on April 28, 1914, in Eccles, West Virginia. The explosion took the lives of at least 180 men and boys. The Eccles...
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Buffalo Creek flood (category Coal mining disasters in West Virginia)
The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, on February 26, 1972, when a coal slurry impoundment dam burst, causing...
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Everettville is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. Everettville is located along County Route 45 and Little...
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Benwood mine disaster (category Coal mining disasters in West Virginia)
Steel Corporation located in the city of Benwood in Marshall County, West Virginia. The disaster claimed the lives of 119 coal miners. There were no survivors...
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died. A small monument marks the location, on County Road 44, about 1.5 km west of the Ludlow Monument, which commemorates those who died in a massacre during...
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There are many ghost towns in West Virginia, some of which were created and abandoned as part of the "boom and bust" economy of coal mining industry....
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Illinois, 1951 (119 killed) Benwood, West Virginia, 1924 (119 killed) Layland Mine disaster, Layland, West Virginia, 1915 (115 killed) Johnstown, Pennsylvania...
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