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Mine Communities Supply Miner
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 20, 2021
Caption: Mine Communities Supply Miner's Needs Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper center left) Coal mining lasted in Acme until 1940, but residents remained in the town until 1977, when Peter Kiewit Sons; Mining Company bought the town and surrounding coal-rich acreage for open pit coal extraction.; (upper center right) Acme power plant.; (bottom panorama) This view of Monarch shows the orderliness of the company town. Image date unknown.; (side-bar at left) The trolley provided a vital connection between the mines and Sheridan. Elsa Spear Byron image date unknown.
Submitted: January 7, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p632222
File Size: 3.536 Megabytes

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