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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: July 13, 2019
Caption: Paint Creek Scenic Trail Map
Additional Description: Click on the image to zoom in. Highlights (shown in green) left to right:

• 1920—Striking miners terrorize Willis Branch with gunfire and destroy the mining complex with dynamite.
• 1919—7 miners are killed in an explosion of the Weirwood coal mine.
• 1989—Striking miners bombed the coal mine at Milbourn, WV
• 1990s—The last company store operating in West Virginia was the Imperial Collieries store in Burnwell.
• 1913—Approximate location of the striking miners’ tent colony that was fired on by mine guards wielding a machine gun mounted on the “Bull Moose” special train.
• 1913—Union organizer mary “Mother” Jones inprisoned in Pratt.

Submitted: August 11, 2019, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p487520
File Size: 8.279 Megabytes

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