Beneath the soil

For 80 years, Edgar County residents mined coal; only one fatality documented

Posted 1/9/17

Long before the rule of natural gas, diesel or electricity, America had coal, reigning supreme over all other types of fuel. Coal powered the locomotives, with their big plumes of smoke, and …

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