Mount Washington Research Paper

My grandparents have owned a lake cottage in Piedmont, Ohio since before I was born. Ever since I was baby I have traveled the one and a half hour drive to our cottage. As I grew older, I took in the scenery and the little towns along the way. One sleepy little farm town in particular we drive through, seventeen minutes away from the lake, is called Cadiz; also known as the town that hosts the Hopedale Mining Coal Company. Yet, I never even knew until eighteen years later that a coal mining operation is stationed there.

They identified even with Rome’s geography. In Washington, DC, Capitol Hill (formerly called Jenkins Hill) alludes to one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

Captured from the top of the Daniel Boone National Forest, located in northeastern Kentucky near the city of Morehead, this featured image originates in one of the most beautiful and well kept secrets on earth. Although this location is breathtaking, efforts to capture images from the summit will certainly involve a bit hiking and climbing, but it’s definitely worth the journey. Whether it’s photography or purely for the love of a great hike, I can’t see anyone regretting making this trip. Regardless of the agenda, a striking and tranquil retreat awaits the willing adventurer.

The collection consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky.

In the early 20th Century, West Virginia was a place where coal barons held immense power. Coal companies owned towns, mayors and governors. Miners were forced to live on coal camps and rent houses from them, as well as purchase all of their coal and other items required to survive from the companies. With this control, mining families where forced to live and work in brutal conditions. In 1921, after a generation of violent suppression, miners erupted in the largest class war in US history. For 5 days miners fought the coal barons, over 1 million rounds of ammunition were fired, this is known as the Battle of Blair Mountain.

The discovery of “Fools Gold” is what led to the enriched and powerful development of the mining company. A Baltimore native John Detrick managed to hike along the Quantico Creek and discovered something shiny in the water which just so happened to be pyrite, also known as Iron Sulfide. With this discovery there came three shafts that lived pyrite. The Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine was the only pyrite mine in the area and really helped out the locals by boosting the economy and providing jobs for farmers who worked as laborers for the mine and then went home to tend to their farm after working. The company was such a big success that by 1917, Virginia produced more pyrite than any other state and continued to provide profitable income to families and businesses located in the area. This would be Batestown and Hickory Ridge at the time in history. With a booming economy, the mining company was able to rake in even more of a profit when World War I struck due to the fact that it was able to produce gunpowder during the mid-nineteenth century. The Cabin Branch Mining Company not only produced an income for the locals by pyrite carrying the main ingredient sulfur that was necessary to produce products like gunpowder, bleach, textiles, soap, medicine, etc. but it also contributed to the remarkable advantages the park would make with its preservation of the mine

Interestingly enough, fourteen miles up the valley, South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, was set in the mountains and was a popular summer destination for the wealthy of Pittsburgh. At the time, Pittsburgh was ages ahead of the little town of Johnstown comparatively. The wealthy, including Andrew Carnegie, even had a home at the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which was ideal for escaping

Burns, Shirley Stewart. Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. Print.

Coalwood, West Virginia was originally built as a mining town due to the large amounts of coal beneath the surface. From the beginning, this company town thrived under the belief that the town was for the mine. Without the mine, the town would cease to exist as the mine provided each family, with a working man, a house. No mine, no job, no house, and consequently, no town.

Sheltered amongst the trees along the Monongahela River, just 15 miles south of Pittsburgh, early travelers located some of the most fertile soil and picturesque landscape that they had ever laid their eyes on. A simply amazing discovery, the area was not only perfect for boat and ship building, but it offered a hub for various forms for incorporating businesses into the area, and it offered conditions perfect for liveability during the heat of summer and the brutal winters that western Pennsylvania is known for. Sometime during the mid to late 1700s, settlers from New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware began moving into the area now known as Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, taking advantage of the lush foliage and generous farmland that sat nestled

Pikes Peak is a mountain in Colorado that gold miners and gold seekers found gold in. When men found gold in California, gold miners and gold seekers from all over, went there to go find gold and go home rich. Miners going through Colorado to get to California stopped and panned for some gold to see if they would find any. Turns out, they found some gold. But it wasn’t enough to have them stay, so they kept going to California. The miners kept coming through Colorado, and kept finding gold. The first amount found was 200 dollars worth of gold. The miners found that money in Cherry Creek. Later on, people stopped coming for gold, but for hunting.

The discovery of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania in the late 1700s led to the development of a robust coal industry in the eastern part of Pennsylvania that grew rapidly and contributed greatly to the history and the economy of Pennsylvania. The book The Face of Decline written by Thomas Dublin, Walter Licht, provides a well written historical and personal account of the discovery, growth, and finally the collapse of the anthracite coal industry in Pennsylvania in a chronological format. Half way through the book one starts to notice some changes in the authors format to cause and effect. The change occurs in order to discuss the cause and resulting effect of events in the region and the solutions. The story is one of great growth and opportunity in the early years which are highlighted by the documented economic growth experienced and supported through testimony within the eastern Pennsylvania coal region. After a period of economic prosperity and community growth from 1900 through 1940 challenges began to erode and occur that created problems for the community and the economy that the coal industry provided. Finally the region’s economy suffered horrendous losses as described by interviews of local residents and families who lived and experienced the rise of the region’s economy. Many of the scars are still evident by the blight and decaying scenes one would experience by traveling through the region’s communities that once fueled the American economy with the energy

We even learned to brave the bus, and one day rode it as far as Kennywood Park to encounter that mythic beast, the Thunderbolt. Many years later, I was to evoke that lost neighborhood of Junction Hollow, that stairway and the impenetrable factory that guarded its uppermost landing in my first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. And of all the questions that have been put to me, over the years, regarding that book, one of the most frequent, from people who don’t know Pittsburgh, and even from some who do, has been, “So, the Cloud Factory, the Lost Neighborhood. Does that stuff really exist or did you make it all up?” I’m usually quick to reply, without thinking much about the question, “Yes. It’s all real.” Sometimes I explain that the term “Cloud Factory” refers to what is actually a marvelous piece of antique steam machinery known as the Bellefield Boiler Plant (it’s just right over there, somewhere, and probably lighting this hall right now). I explain that that term did not even originate with me, but was in general, if not common use among Pitt and CMU students for years before I started college here. But what I’ve come to realize, looking back over the afternoon and indeed the whole of my history and even prehistory in Pittsburgh, is that this is the place where things began to happen to me, where I began to see things that sounded as if I must have invented them, when in fact they were real, visible, and

Pittsburgh’s hills, rivers, and valleys made way for a unique city. George Woods and Thomas Vickroy crated the design for the Golden Triangle (Point State Park) in 1784. Point State Park is where the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio River. The triangular town had streets parallel to the Alleghany and streets parallel to the Monongahela. The streets meet at Liberty Avenue. The Woods-Vickroy street layout was only changed

Have you ever wanted to experience in an environment made for camping trips or long nights around the bonfire? The lush environment surrounding the windward side of the Cascade mountains is one of the most naturalistic experiences anyone could come across. More specifically, Mount Rainer, a well-known mountain peak along the Puget Sound in Washington State. When it comes to wanting a true nature experience, it’s impossible to not recommend the national park of Mount Rainer due to its variety of sights built by nature, temperate climate, and the nostalgic scent of evergreens and firewood.