Battle of the Island
An article about the Battle of the Island and the death of Aracoma in 1779 at Logan, WV.
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Logan County History
Altizer Family of Man
The Altizer Family of Man, Logan County, WV The History of West Virginia, Old and New and West Virginia Biography Volume II Biographical, Page 211 The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York Published 1923 Aaron Edson Altizer, M. D. Altizer is one of the oldest family names in the Buffalo Valley District of
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Battle of Blair Mountain
Battle of Blair Mountain “Kill all the Red Necks you can.” — Sheriff Don Chafin to his men during the Battle of Blair Mountain. The Battle of Blair Mountain in Logan County, WV was one of the largest civil uprisings in United States history and the largest armed rebellion since the American Civil War. For
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Logan County, West Virginia was being soaked with a steady drizzle of rain as a crowd gathered to wait for news at the entrance of the Macbeth Mine. At about 1:30 in the evening on September 2, 1936 the Macbeth Mine of the Hutchinson Coal Company blew killing ten men. It was considered a major
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A Gaping Black Mouth – MacBeth 1937
Only six months after the first Macbeth explosion on March 11, 1937, the Macbeth Mine blew again killing eighteen men. As a March rain fell, scenes from September past were being replayed. Some of the men who helped carry out bodies in the first explosion were now mangled corpses in the same entries they had
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Dark as a Dungeon – Holden, March 8, 1960
On Tuesday, March 8, 1960 the Holden Mine at Island Creek No. 22 in Logan County, West Virginia, caught fire in the coal seam and created a carbon monoxide gas which killed eighteen men by asphyxiation. The men were trapped shortly after entering the mine at seven in the morning.
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Does Mamie Thurman Still Walk Those Hills?
MAMIE THURMAN MURDER IN LOGAN COUNTY The taking of another’s life is a monstrous act indeed. The violence of a murder has creepy vines that bind. It kills a part of everyone involved. After more than eighty years when the night winds wail, people still claim Mamie Thurman walks the hills on 22 Mountain near
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Farming and Homesteads
Submitted by: Frank Adams Source: 1952 Centennial Program Booklet, Published by the City of Logan, WV. FARMING AND HOMESTEADS By Mrs. Florence Peck Adams Beginning back in 1880, I remember Logan county as a very barren place to live. We lived some distance apart and did not visit very often. Most of the homes were
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Lyburn Mine Fire
REV. ARCHIE CONWAY Photo by: Dolores Riggs – 1958 LYBURN MINE FIRE On Sunday morning at seven o’clock on August 14, 1932, four men entered the Croaton Coal Company Mine at Lyburn. The mine was empty, and they were cleaning up slate so Monday’s shift could start on time. At approximately ten o’clock that morning
The Historical Hinchman House
THE HINCHMAN HOUSE, HINCHMAN AND COLE STREET, LOGAN WV U.B. “Beck” Buskirk, a lumber entrepreneur, began construction on a home in the city of Logan on Cole Street in the winter of 1893. It was a masterpiece of late nineteenth century architecture, and became a well known landmark in Logan. Buskirk’s wife was from Cincinnati,
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