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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.
This cemetery is smaller and more remote, but it is similar to the Leach Cemetery in the most significant details. A large number of miners were all killed in the accident on December 9, 1911 at the Cross Mountain mine, and many were buried in this cemetery.
The approximate location is shown in this aerial view from Terraserver, and in this map from maps.yahoo.com.
The photo at left shows the traditional pick and shovel mining symbol on the base of the central monument. Unfortunately, it has been damaged.
The photo at right looks down the gravel road through the
cemetery.
Some unique headstones shaped like tree trunks are seen in this photo.
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 believe that Harmon would be the easiest to defeat, though he might gain much strength from the Republicans. Clark would surely lose New York. I am beginning to feel that by some stroke of genius they may name Woodrow Wilson, and that seems a pretty hard tussle. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, September 14, 1911. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 2: 744, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Judson Harmon was the Democratic governor of Ohio, Champ Clark the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Woodrow Wilson the reform governor of New Jersey. Taft hoped that either Clark or Harman would be named. With Bryan as his Warwick, however, the honor fell to Wilson. ~ |
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