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Author Day, James Sanders, 1956-

Title Diamonds in the rough : a history of Alabama's Cahaba coal field / James Sanders Day
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2013
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Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Browne, William Phineas, 1804-1869.
SUBJECT Browne, William Phineas, 1804-1869 fast
Subject Coal mines and mining -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History -- 19th century
Coal mines and mining -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History -- 20th century
Coalfields -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History
Company towns -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History
Businessmen -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- Biography
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Businessmen
Coal mines and mining
Coalfields
Company towns
Economic history
Social conditions
SUBJECT Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- History, Local
Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- Social conditions
Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- Economic conditions
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Local history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012044797
ISBN 0817386742
9780817386740