The Coal Creek War

EPISODE · Dec 31, 2016 · 13 MIN

The Coal Creek War

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In the early 1890’s, miners working in the coal mines at Coal Creek in Anderson County, Tennessee, rose up against the mine operators over their jobs being taken by free convict labor. Things eventually became violent, with armed miners squaring off against the Tennessee guard in what can only be described as an armed uprising. […]

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