The Great Buxton
Miners with mule-drawn cart
Southern Iowa coal mine
Central Iowa coal mine
River Barge Transporting Coal
Sectional and Geological Map of Iowa, 1856
Four Coal Miners in 1910
Coal Mining With Child Labor
Iowa Soldiers, World War I
Public Housing for Miners
Buxton: Racial harmony in an Iowa coal mining town
Coal Mining Towns
Coal Workers Unionize
Coal Mining With Child Labor
Time Frame: ca. 1870's
Coal mining was a big industry in southern and central Iowa. Some boys as young as 8th graders worked in the mines.
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