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Coal Miner Mystery Found by River Treasure hunter in Ghost Town while Metal Detecting! This week we head into the backwoods ...
The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...
The UK has a vast network of abandoned coal mines, especially in north-east England, which once produced 14% of the nation’s coal. However, around a quarter of the population in this region ...
The preserved ruins of more than 460 coke ovens are hidden among the brush in Blocton Coke Oven Park in Bibb County, which is ...
The UK has a vast network of abandoned coal mines, especially in north-east England, which once produced 14% of the nation’s coal. However, around a quarter of the population in this region lives ...
Brantley Baird never misses a chance to talk history, from how his great-grandmother helped settle the town of Snowflake long ...
Where I grew up in New York City an abandoned building would not look so good. Rural America is indeed different. That town and its residents ... dozens of coal mines in Athens County, Ohio ...
The U.S. coal industry has been in a steep decline for decades, and President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed ...
A $10 billion power plant 50 miles east of Pittsburgh would transform a former coal town, but would it save the town and schools?
American Electric Power’s John Amos coal-fired plant in Winfield, W.Va, is seen from the town of Poca across ... land damaged by strip mining, and reclaim abandoned and damaged mine lands.