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Author: Louise Dawson Stoker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738518268 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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Bramwell, "the pride of West Virginia's southern tip," sprang up almost overnight as a result of the 1800s coal-mining boom. It boasted more millionaires per capita than any other town in this country. These vintage photographs tell of devastation by the 1890 flood and the 1910 fire. In 1957, a warm January caused the Bluestone River to cover Main Street and limited transportation to rowboats. Herein, stories unfold of the early days when coal was king and cash flowed as freely as the river. A few old-timers remember watching the bank janitor as he pushed a cart full of money down Main Street to the train station every week. The bank financed Washington's Burning Tree Country Club and the University Women's Club. By the start of World War II, Bramwell's "millionaires" were the students attending Bramwell School. This volume includes photo memories showing how the school and community were joined at heart.
Author: Louise Dawson Stoker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738518268 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Bramwell, "the pride of West Virginia's southern tip," sprang up almost overnight as a result of the 1800s coal-mining boom. It boasted more millionaires per capita than any other town in this country. These vintage photographs tell of devastation by the 1890 flood and the 1910 fire. In 1957, a warm January caused the Bluestone River to cover Main Street and limited transportation to rowboats. Herein, stories unfold of the early days when coal was king and cash flowed as freely as the river. A few old-timers remember watching the bank janitor as he pushed a cart full of money down Main Street to the train station every week. The bank financed Washington's Burning Tree Country Club and the University Women's Club. By the start of World War II, Bramwell's "millionaires" were the students attending Bramwell School. This volume includes photo memories showing how the school and community were joined at heart.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture, Domestic Languages : en Pages : 0
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Cradled quaintly in the arms of a horseshoe bend of the beautiful Bluestone River is the famous millionaires' town of Bramwell, W.Va., once recognized as having the largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States. This small town grew quickly with the discovery of the Pocahontas coal field, employing 100,000 miners in the early 1880's. Fourteen passenger trains were bound for Bramwell daily. Much like the gold rush of California, the explosion of growth from coal brought hordes of immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Italy, Germany and England, along with miners, businessmen and entrepreneurs from within the United States. Bramwell was the hub, as it was surrounded by coalfields, extending over 40 miles. Coal became America's energy source and the Bank of Bramwell became the wealthiest bank per capita in the country. Its influence extended far beyond West Virginia with extensive financing in Washington, D.C. Today ATV enthusiasts access the Hatfield-McCoy trails via the Pocahontas Trail #10. Bramwell provides a beautiful and historic community, and with the surrounding area, offers all the amenities for families wanting to enjoy one of America's most beautiful states, Wild and Wonderful West Virginia.
Author: Rick Steelhammer Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1461747236 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
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Laugh your way through the pages of West VirginiaCuriosities, your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Mountain State has to offer!
Author: George D. Torok Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9781572332829 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 372
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A guide to the historical coal towns of the Big Sandy River Valley that provides brief histories of each town, descriptions of the buildings and structures that remain, and insight into the town's residents.
Author: Nancy Hoffman Publisher: Marshall Cavendish ISBN: 9780761425625 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 148
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This book relates the history and describes the geographic features, places of interest, government, industry, environmental concerns, and life of the people of this largely rural state.
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 1018
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author: Ronald L. Lewis Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807887900 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 408
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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.
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