Carrying Coal To Columbus

Author : David Meyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625858124
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carrying Coal to Columbus written by David Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 1755, explorers found coal deposits in Ohio's Hocking Valley. The industry that followed created towns and canals and established a new way of life. The first shipment of coal rolled into Columbus in 1830 and has continued ever since. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus. Lorenzo D. Poston became the first of the Hocking Valley coal barons, and by the start of the twentieth century, at least fifty thousand coal miners and their families lived and worked in Athens, Hocking and Perry Counties. Authors David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker and Nyla Vollmer detail the hard work and struggles as they unfolded in Ohio's capital and the Little Cities of Black Diamonds.

Author : American Commerce Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traffic Library... written by American Commerce Association and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward H. Miller
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821416588
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hocking Valley Railway written by Edward H. Miller and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history of this railroad,” says Richard Francaviglia, author of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroad also carried iron and salt-and kept the finest passenger service in the State of Ohio. Despite the fact that the Hocking Valley was such a large railroad, with a huge economic and social impact, very little is known about it.The Hocking Valley Railway traces the journey of a company that began in 1867 as the Columbus and Hocking Valley, built to haul coal from Athens to Columbus. Extensions of the line and consolidation of several branches ultimately created the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo. This was a 345-mile railway, extending from the Lake Erie port of Toledo through Columbus, and on to the Ohio River port of Pomeroy. The history of the Hocking Valley, as with other railroads, is one of boom times and depression. By the 1920s, the Hocking fields were largely depleted, and the mass of track south of Columbus became a backwater, while the Toledo Division boomed. The corporate name has been gone for more than three quarters of a century, but the Hocking Valley lives on as an integral part of railroad successor CSX. Historians and railroad enthusiasts will find much to savor in the story of this ever-changing company and the managers who ran it. The Hocking Valley Railway, complete with more than 150 photographs and illustrations, also documents a historic transformation in Midwest transportation from slow canalboats to speedy railcars.The author, Edward H. Miller is retired from Hocking Valley successor CSX. This is his first book, which has been over thirty years in the making.

Author : Kevin J. Koch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253068851
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midwest Bedrock written by Kevin J. Koch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To know a place deeply means to understand it on several levels, layered almost as if from bedrock to topsoil. Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland takes readers on a journey across all twelve Midwest states to natural settings that defy typical stereotypes of the Midwest landscape. Each chapter focuses on one focal region or locality within each state, often seeking out lesser-known landscapes steeped in beauty and story. Author Kevin Koch invites readers to join him on a journey through the beauty of the Midwest and to discover such places as Wisconsin's 1,100-mile Ice Age Trail that follows the furthest reach of the last glacier; Minnesota's Lake Itasca, headwaters of the Mississippi River; and Indiana's Hoosier National Forest, which still cradles hidden graveyards from long-abandoned farm communities. Part history, part memoir, part interview-based research, Midwest Bedrock is a personal narrative of exploring the natural beauty of America's Heartland, where each location tells the stories of the past that linger on the landscape.

Author : Ohio. Auditor of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Auditor of State to the ... General Assembly written by Ohio. Auditor of State and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
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Download or read book The Coal Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book Coal and Coal Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ohio. Auditor of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report - Auditor of State written by Ohio. Auditor of State and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Meyers
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673411
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938 written by David Meyers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men and women yet few of them were ever prosecuted--some were even lauded for taking the law into their own hands. In 1892, Ohio-born Benjamin Harrison was the first U.S. President to call for anti-lynching legislation. Four years later, his home state responded with the Smith Act "for the Suppression of Mob Violence." One of the most severe anti-lynching laws in the country, it was a major step forward, though it did little to address the underlying causes of racial intolerance and distrust of law enforcement. Chronicling hundreds of acts of mob violence in Ohio, this book explores the acts themselves, their motivations and the law's response to them.