In 1959 a mining operation ignored mine regulations leading not only to a mine roof collapse but flooding so bad that several miners were killed and the entire economy in the area was pretty much destroyed.
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Spread the loveNovember 14, 1970, is a date burned into the memories of the residents of Huntington, West Virginia. That’s the day Marshall University lost its football team in a
Spread the loveDuring the Great Depression jobs were hard to come by. So when the Rhinehart and Dennis Construction Company came looking for workers to build a hydroelectric tunnel on
Spread the loveIn 1914 a series of massive explosions occurred in the Eccles Mine No. 5 near Eccles, West Virginia in Raleigh County, West Virginia, leaving over 180 men and