Emancipation Boosts Coal Production
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African American History in West Virginia is deeply rooted in the rise of the bituminous coal industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Coal production increased from less than 5 million tons in 1885 to more than 40 million tons in the southern counties alone by 1910. In 1893, Samuel Dixon came to the settlement to run the MacDonald Colliery Company. In 1900, he went out independently, and the coal companies he consolidated became the New River Coal Company in 1905.
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