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Historic Mount Hope Walking Trail

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Samuel Dixon, born in Scarborough, England 1856, emigrated to Fayette County in 1877 as the son of an ironstone miner. He was able to take his ancestral knowledge of mining and quickly put it to work for his uncle. This visionary would purchase land throughout the coalfields of WV and operate retail coal yards in many cities, including Cincinnati and Chicago. He was one of 7 men indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on April 11, 1908, on charges of peonage.


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