Lignite Mines
Item
- Title
- Lignite Mines
- Date
- 1999-03-29/2018-01-24
- Description
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A Roanoke Times article titled "Once hidden by kudzu, ruins of Lignite tell of times past" describes efforts of U.S. Forest Service archaeologists and James Madison University students to uncover and map remains of a town called Lignite. The ruins were exposed after a controlled burn of the kudzu that had grown on top. Lignite was a mining town founded by Alleghany Ore & Iron Company in 1899.
The third image is from a Fincastle Herald article on the Lignite Mines, which explains that the mining company relocated to Pennsylvania in 1920, but the town of Lignite continued until 1950, when the property was added to the Jefferson National Forest. - Creator
- Klein-Davis, Stephanie; Austin, Hanna
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Subject
- Lignite
- Lignite Mines
- Type
- Image; Text
- Publisher
- The Roanoke Times; The Fincastle Herald
- Coverage
- Lignite, Botetourt County
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Identifier
- https://fincastleherald.com/lignite-a-botetourt-ghost-town/
- Item sets
- Community
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