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Billion Dollar Coalfield by Alex P. Schust West Virginia’s McDowell Co HardCover
Billion Dollar Coalfield by Alex P. Schust West Virginias McDowell Co.
Billion Dollar Coalfield
West Virginias McDowell County and the Industrialization of America
Alex P. Schust
Hard cover
634 Pages
Copyright 2010
Contents
Introductioniv
Chapter 1 Billion Dollar Coalfield1
Chapter 2 A Necessary Quartet21
Chapter 3 Norfolk & Western Railway Main LineMaybeury to Northfork65
Chapter 4 Norfolk & Western Railway North Fork Branch Elkridge to Crumpler117
Chapter 5 Norfolk & Western Railway Main Line Keystone to Tidewater161
Chapter 6 Norfolk & Western Railway Main Line Kimball to Welch207
Chapter 7 Norfolk & Western Railway Tug Fork Branch Welch to Leckie243
Chapter 8 Branch Lines of Norfolk & Western's Tug Fork Branch287
Chapter 9 Norfolk & Western Railway Main Line Hemphill to Davy313
Chapter 10 Norfolk & Western Railway Main Line Twin Branch to Roderfield359
Chapter 11 Norfolk & Western Railway Spice Creek Branch Erin to Premier387
Chapter 12 Norfolk & Western Railway Clear Fork Branch Clear Fork Junction to Six 405
Chapter 13 Norfolk & Western Railway Main Line Wilmore to Iaeger423
Chapter 14 Norfolk & Western Railway Dry Fork Branch Auville Yard to Yukon435
Chapter 15 Norfolk & Western Railway Dry Fork Branch Excelsior to Faraday475
Chapter 16 Branch Lines of Norfolk & Western's Dry Fork Branch505
Chapter 17 Norfolk & Western Railway Main Line Polan to Isaban529
Chapter 18 One Hundred Years of Industrialization551
Epilog577
Appendix 1 Bouvier-Iaeger Coal Land Company v. Sypher et al.579
Appendix 2 Coalfield Pioneers of McDowell County590
Appendix 3 Construction Engineering of Modern Coal Plants601
Appendix 4 Assessing the Mining Communities606
Appendix 5 McDowell County Coal Production613
Appendix 6 Communities, Places and Names in McDowell County617
Selected Bibliography624
Index626
Descriptions on Gary Hollow and Coalwood634
Billion Dollar Coalfield is a record of the coal operators and the railroad that industrialized McDowell County. It takes the reader on a 100-year journey from the first mine on Elkhorn Creek in 1888 to 1988 when the last of the pioneering coal operations shut down. It covers every mining community and pioneering coal operator in McDowell Countythose who succeeded and those who failed. Author, Alex Schust, blends information from official records with personal letters, oral recollections, and newspaper articles to create a historical record flavored with life in 20th Century coal communities.
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