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Credit goes to the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation's web page describing the Coal Creek Motor Discovery Trail for providing a suggested tour route and information about the area.
More pictures and information can be found at Carl Fritts' web pages about the Leach Cemetery and the Fraterville mine disaster. Also, Bonnie Phillips is collecting pictures, names and dates from Leach cemetery, as well as from many others in the area.
The location is shown in this aerial view from Terraserver (faint circle at right), and in this map from maps.yahoo.com.
It makes a stunning impression to see the same date, May 19, 1902, over and over, on every headstone in the circular pattern surrouding the central monument.
The photo at right looks back towards the church.
This headstone shows an example of the repairs that have been done to improve the condition of the monuments.
The base of the central monument is engraved with the names of
the many miners who died in the tragic accident.
| Quote of the moment |
| I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Dedication speech, July 4, 1929, at Tammany Hall’s new headquarters. Nathan Miller, F.D.R.: An Intimate History, p. 234, Doubleday & Co. (1983). A theme which FDR often referred to in his articles and speeches in the 1920s was the degree to which the Republican Party represented big business to the exclusion of the rest of the populace. This related to his perception of the “economic royalists” (in an address during the 1936 campaign), whom he believed had brought the nation to disaster in the twenties. ~ |
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