#blairmountain

[brandonraykirk]

Alleged Leader of #Rednecks Arrested, Logan Banner, 17 March 1922. #blairmountain #wv #history #minewars #appalachia #coal https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq_UKOSnBwH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ts4wdvkfzh3m

[journalappalachia]

December 13, 2016. Sid Hatfield’s murder location. #sidhatfield #UMWA #baldwinfelts #matewan #mingocounty #blairmountain #logancounty #murder #minersmarch #1921 #mcdowellcountycourthouse #welch #mcdowellcounty #wv #history #wvhistory #coal #coalmining #coalminers #appalachia #matewanmassacre (at McDowell County Courthouse)

[brandonraykirk]

Researching 1850s surveys and Don Chafin. 👍 #logan #logancounty #wv #genealogy #history #blairmountain #appalachia #brandonkirk (at Logan County Courthouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI9XVSUnv16/?igshid=10xkie4jltlcf

[brandonraykirk]

Driving over #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #fall #foliage #leaves (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOPBwnHX1p/?igshid=1rvylzcd9zysw

[brandonraykirk]

Driving over #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #fall #foliage #leaves (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOO8GLHeQZ/?igshid=c75rabwpdb2u

[brandonraykirk]

Driving over #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #fall #foliage #leaves (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOO0rxnhUq/?igshid=g88a7rujf3eb

[brandonraykirk]

Driving over #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #fall #foliage #leaves (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOOtxRnWoy/?igshid=x43t3a1j54h6

[brandonraykirk]

Driving over #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #fall #foliage #leaves (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOOmKlnFGQ/?igshid=qaf3a9k6sikd

[brandonraykirk]

Driving over #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #fall #foliage #leaves (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOOh8On4-4/?igshid=17f1bjybm6e65

[brandonraykirk]

Driving over #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV #Appalachia #fall #foliage #leaves (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOObQ4nhGH/?igshid=w10r0lu3qcmv

[brandonraykirk]

Here is the grave of Deputy John C. Gore, who was murdered by the #umwa at #BlairMountain #coal #minewars #appalachia #photos #brandonkirk #history #Ethel #wv (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ptdQpH2rB/?igshid=1e7oxcx40febk

[brandonraykirk]

Here is the grave of Deputy John C. Gore, who was murdered by the #umwa at #BlairMountain #coal #minewars #appalachia #photos #brandonkirk #history #Ethel #wv (at Ethel, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ps_oGH_cR/?igshid=u3yi4j2u53vi

[brandonraykirk]

Ethel, Logan County, WV (2020)

#Ethel #LoganCounty #WV (2020) #Appalachia #history #photos #BlairMountain #BattleofBlairMountain #coal #MineWars

In the 1890s, land speculators James L. Caldwell, a banker from Huntington, C.W. Campbell, an attorney from Huntington, and John Q. Dickinson, a banker from Charleston, acquired many acres of land on Dingess Run and Rum Creek. The trio procured some of Logan County’s finest coal lands with six accessible seams of coal. They formed the Dingess-Rum Coal Company in June of 1903 to administer their…

[brandonraykirk]

State v. Edgar Combs (1923): Statement of E.F. Scaggs

State v. Edgar Combs (1923): Statement of E.F. Scaggs #Appalachia #BlairMountain #history #UMWA #unions #WV

[brandonraykirk]

State v. Edgar Combs (1923): Statement of Clarence H. Frey

State v. Edgar Combs (1923): Statement of Clarence H. Frey #BattleofBlairMountain #BlairMountain #ArmedMarch #Appalachia #history #Logan #WV

[brandonraykirk]

Mollie Drake: "The Florence Nightingale of Blair Mountain" (1921)

Mollie Drake is profiled #BlairMountain #LoganCounty #WV (1921) #Appalachia #history #coal

Mollie (Dingess) Drake, daughter of Allen B. Dingess and Caroline (Jackson) Dingess, was born on June 30, 1881 in Logan County, WV. She was the wife of Leo Frank Drake, a salesman. She appears in the 1910 Wayne County Census (Ceredo District). Hannah Mitchell profiled her life in the Logan Bannerof Logan, WV, on December 30, 1921. Her husband died in 1925. In 1930, Mollie lived at Springfield,…