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The Pocahontas mine
Pocahontas, Tazewell County, Virginia
Coal town guy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The seam here ran thirteen feet thick and burned so cleanly that the United States Navy bought it by the shipload, which is why a town this small once had an opera house. The company opened the worked-out mine to the public in 1938, making it one of the first exhibition mines in the country, and you still walk in on the level rather than riding down. The cemetery above holds the hundred and fourteen men killed in the 1884 explosion.
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