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Closeup of an Old Coal Company Mining Town of Red Ash Virginia, near Richards in the Southwestern Part of the State 04/1974 by The U.S. National Archives, via Flickr Jean Ritchie, Old Gods Of Appalachia, Appalachian People, Company Town, Mountain People, Southwest Virginia, Virginia History, Old Gods, Coal Miners

Original Caption: Closeup of an Old Coal Company Mining Town of Red Ash Virginia, near Richards in the Southwestern Part of the State. This Is a Classic Picture of a Company Town with a Railroad in the Valley Flanked by Miners' Homes. These Houses Are Two Family Dwellings the Road Is Made of Red Dog, a Mining Byproduct 04/1974 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-13880 Photographer: Corn, Jack, 1929- Subjects: Richlands (Tazewell county, Virginia, United States) inhabited place…

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Miner Aesthetic, Mining Aesthetic, Abandoned Mineshaft, Coal Mine Aesthetic, Coal Mining Aesthetic, Coal Miner Aesthetic, Black Coal Miners, Harlan County Kentucky Coal Mining, Coal Miners

Go down in history - 3 feet beneath the surface of the earth in a once abandoned, but now restored hard coal mine. See where and how men and boys worked to heat a nation and fuel the conversion of our nation's economy from agriculture to industry.

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