If we can win the preservation fight, we will be able to begin giving tours at the Blair Mountain battlefield. As of right, it is pretty much impossible. But our friends over at Coal Country Tours are giving tours of the southern coalfields with a specific package that deals with the West Virginia Mine Wars. Go over to their website today, book your tour, and experience the rich heritage of labor in central Appalachia.
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Whipple Company Store and Museum
Join our friends over at the Whipple Company Store for a tour of (what we think) is the best museum around regarding coal mining life. Built in 1890, the Whipple Store served as a sort of fortress to keep coal mining families under a system of servitude. A tour of the museum guided by the Lynn family will provide an in-depth and un-whitewashed picture of what life in a company-owned coal camp was like. For a special treat, ask for the ‘Bible story’. For those of us who have wondered what would make miners charge up a rugged hill in the face of machine gun fire, well, the answer is at the Whipple Store.
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