According to the West Virginia Encyclopedia, the Coal House is 1,600 square feet in size and made from 65 tons of coal. The ...

Coal City Elementary is a public school located in Coal City, WV, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Coal City Elementary is 374 and the school serves PK-5. At Coal City ...

The City of Beckley’s annual Coal Town Christmas is back this coming weekend at the Exhibition Coal Mine. Leslie Gray Baker, ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

but the mood inside the city’s civic center was downright ... the hundreds of members and guests at the annual meeting of the West Virginia Coal Association mingled with a lightness that would ...

To meet the growing demand for coal in the early 20th century, West Virginia companies needed more miners. African Americans mixed with European immigrants and native Appalachians in the mines and ...

At every turn, the interests of the coal industry were placed above the economic and environmental health of West Virginians. James Van Nostrand tells the story of why West Virginia now faces ...