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Eric A. Hegg (September 17, 1867 – December 13, 1947) was a Swedish-American photographer who portrayed the people in Skagway, Bennett and Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush from 1897 to 1901. [1]
The Irish were generally unskilled in the field of mining and so received the lowest-skilled, lowest-paying jobs. Over time, the Irish learned the skills of mining and moved into better-paying, higher-skilled jobs. By the time of the 1880s and 1890s, the low-skill jobs were being taken by the new wave of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
The former Elkins Coal and Coke Company site is located about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southwest of Masontown, West Virginia and 0.25 miles (0.40 km) west of West Virginia Route 7, on a terrace overlooking Deckers Creek. Built into the side of the hills rising above the creek are a series of 140 stone and brick coke ovens, formed in an undulating ...
The southern end of Old Mine Road at right. Route 80 bridge can be seen at left, with the Karamac trail straight ahead.. Old Mine Road is a road in New Jersey and New York said to be one of the oldest continuously used roads in the United States of America.
The shovel was designed for strip mining at the Egypt Valley coalfield near Barnesville, Ohio. GEM is an acronym for “Giant Earth Mover” or “Giant Excavating Machine”. [ 2 ] It was one of only two Bucyrus-Erie 1950-B shovels built (the other being The Silver Spade ) and one of two to use the knee-action crowd licensed from Marion Power ...
In the 1980s, the median home price in the U.S. was $47,200 ($170,000 adjusted for inflation). In 2025, the median home price is $400,000, and wages are failing to keep up.
Gilman is an abandoned mining town in southeastern Eagle County, Colorado, United States.The Gilman post office operated from November 3, 1886, until April 22, 1986. [3] The U.S. Post Office at Minturn (ZIP Code 81645) now serves Gilman postal addresses.
Henry's Knob name derives from the Henry family, early settlers of York County who originally owned the mountain and surrounding land. In 1765 William Henry was granted 336 acres (1.36 km 2) on the south side of the Little Mountain, as Henry's Knob was then called, and four years later he was granted another 100 acres (0.40 km 2).