Discovering and Marketing Coal : 1815-1859 -- Mining and Mapping Coal : 1859-1883 -- Surveying and Developing the Field : 1883-1910 -- Coal Towns : 1881-1919 -- Convict Leasing : 1872-1927 -- Welfare Capitalism : 1915-1933 -- Unionism : 1878-1935 -- Decline and Demise : 1929-1976
Summary
This book reconstructs the historical moment that defined the Cahaba Coal Field, a mineral-rich area that stretches across sixty-seven miles and four counties of central Alabama. Combining existing written sources with oral accounts and personal recollections, the author describes the numerous coal operations in this region-later overshadowed by the rise of the Birmingham district and the larger Warrior Field to the north