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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