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What early industry gave rise in the Kanawha Valley to the coal industry?
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Which of the following is sometimes considered the "father of West Virginia's coal industry?"
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What equipment consolidated all of the basic mining steps into one machine?
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In 2000, a national publication referred to this Gilbert native as "the last of West Virginia's homegrown coal barons."
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Based on a 1907 law, who was responsible for teaching inexperienced miners and conducting frequent mine examinations?
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What international financier forced the N&W Railway to give him 50,000 acres of prime coal land in McDowell County?
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Where was the original headquarters of the West Virginia Coal Association?
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Due to this development, 10 hospitals were built in the southern coalfields for miners and their families.
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Using the room-and-pillar mining method, what was the most dangerous step in the process?
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In which one of these places did a deadly coal strike occur in the 1950s?
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