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The first coal in the New River Coalfield was shipped from this town.
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In 1955, Logan County surpassed which one of the following as the leading coal producing county in the nation?
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Which of the following railroads did NOT did not provide a financial boost to southern West Virginia's coal industry?
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Which of the following prominent politicians was NOT a major coal investor?
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5
In what year was West Virginia's Department of Mines founded?
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Which one of these mine disasters occurred in the 2000s?
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Where was the original headquarters of the West Virginia Coal Association?
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By the early 1930s, about how much of southern West Virginia's coal was being mined by African Americans?
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Which of the following was NOT part of early mining methods?
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About what year did commercial coal mining begin in what is now West Virginia?
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