COAL CREEK SCHOLARS DAY
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Coal Creek Scholars Day
Briceville School
5 January 2021
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116 AMERICAN
CHESTNUTS
PLANTED ON RECLAIMED MINE LAND
IN EAST TENNESSEEMarch 2021
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TEACHING TENNESSEE TEACHERS
COAL CREEK HISTORY
23 JULY 2020
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FROM GERMANY WITH LOVE!!
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CLAXTON SCHOOL'S
FAMILY FUN LITERACY &
SOCIAL STUDIES NIGHT
23 January 2020 |
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ANNUAL MEETING AT ANDERSON COUNTY
HIGH SCHOOL WITH BRICEVILLE SCHOOL
GRADUATES WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR
COAL CREEK SCHOLARSHIPS
TO COLLEGE OR TECHNICAL SCHOOL!
28 August 2019 |
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19th Annual Briceville School
4th & 5th grade
Coal Creek History Field Trip
May 2019
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Two 2019 Tree Planting Events on
Reclaimed Mining Sites
Kopper Glo Mining
Site
Copper Basin, TN
Mining Site
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Coal Creek Scholar Awards
Announced May 2019
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Annual Lake City Middle School 8th Grade
Coal Creek History Lesson
May 2019
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Annual History Field Trip
18 May 2018
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Four Nantglo Scholarships totaling $40,000
awarded to Benny Foster, Joshalyn Harmon,
Noah Lamb and Nathan Cox!
16 May 2018
2018 Nantglo Scholarship Winners! L to R:
Nathan Cox, Joshalyn Harmon, Noah Lamb & Benny Foster |
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RESULTS!
10th Annual Arbor Day
Planting Event where students from
Whitwell Middle School made history by planting
blight-resistant American chestnut hybrids on
mine land reclaimed by
Tennessee Consolidated/Lexington Coal Company
10 April 2018
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RESULTS!!
Arbor Day Planting Event where students
from Copper Basin High School made history by
planting blight-resistant American chestnut hybrids
on mine land reclaimed by Copperhill Industries
Successful tree planting
in Polk County, TN
by the Forestry Reclamation Approach
17 April 2018
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GROUNDWORK FOR APRIL 2018
TREE PLANTING EVENT!
ONE OF TWO EVENTS THIS YEAR!
Copper Basin in Ducktown, TN
7 February 2018 |
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History of Norris and its founder
Arthur Ernest Morgan
Lesson for eighth-graders at
Norris Middle School
9 & 11 January 2018 |
16th Annual
Coal Creek Scholars Day
& goodies from Santa
18 December
2017
RESPECT
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Veterans Day --
November 11, 2017
Coal Creek Scholars honor the
veterans of the Coal Creek War
The Coal Miners and the TN Militia
Work
day at Militia Hill! |
You just need to use
the right bait!!
The 17th annual event!!
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 Coal
Creek history lesson from a
Welsh mining engineer who
lived it Scott High School,
Scott
County, TN
24 October 2017 |
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Ceremony for Artifact
Donations
from the Great Fraterville Mine Explosion
to the Museum of East Tennessee History
Knoxville, Tennessee
8 September 2017
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COAL CREEK HISTORY
IN THE
NEW STATE of TN
SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS
28
July 2017
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24 July 2017
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Coal Creek
Watershed Foundation
awards scholarships to
help educate a new
generation
of community leaders
Two Nantglo scholarships
totaling
$20,000
awarded to
Samantha Campbell and Anna Braden!
Anna Braden, Barry Thacker PE, and Samantha Campbell
2017 Nantglo Scholarship Winners! |
19 May 2017
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SEE THE RESULTS!
9th Annual
Arbor Day Planting Event
where students from
Stone School 6th grade planted over 1000 trees
including
blight-resistant
American chestnut hybrids
on mine site reclaimed
by
Crossville Coal Company
Cumberland County, TN
Friday,
28 April
2017
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DUTCH
VALLEY SCHOOL SCIENCE DAY!
17
March 2017
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Coal Creek Spring
Cleaning Day
18 March 2017
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Kick-off assembly
13 January 2017
Briceville School
in Coal Creek
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https://youtu.be/Cl8z_UjZLZE
CLICK LINK TO VIEW THE BEAUTIFUL
VIDEO PRODUCED BY SCHOLARS ANDY HARNESS,
AMY DUGGER CRABTREE, JONATHAN SHARP, PHILLIP SMITH,
ROCKY BAILEY, AND FRANCES-LEE BRADEN DOUGHERTY |
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Restoration of
Fort Anderson on
Militia Hill by
Coal Creek Scholars
and other volunteers
Saturday, 5 November 2016
"These leaves won't rake themselves."
That's what elementary-school student
Riley Mozingo said when she refused
to take a break from the work. |
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27 October 2016
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GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Coal Creek Scholars visit the
McClung Collection at the
East Tennessee History Center
Saturday, 8 October 2016
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Coal Creek history lesson from a
Welsh mining engineer who lived it
Lake City Middle School
16 September 2016
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ATTENTION FIFTH THROUGH
TWELFTH-GRADE TEACHERS
FREE OFFER TO TEACH YOUR CLASSES!!
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Kyle Leinart, Coal Creek Scholar,
featured speaker at the
Technical Society of Knoxville
8 August 2016 |
Bringing Coal Creek
history to life
for teachers in
Chattanooga/
Hamilton County |
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Coal Creek history
comes to life for
Briceville 4th & 5th graders20 May 2016
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Three scholarships totaling
$30,000 awarded to
Jeffery Housley, Chad Whitaker,
and Kyle Leinart!
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Saturday, 7 May 2016
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ANOTHER SMART COAL CREEK KID!!
“Never
forget where you came from,
but go as far as an education will take you.”
Ricky Bailey, Coal Creek Scholar |
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UPDATE -- APRIL 2016!!!
ENGINEERING BETTER READERS
Briceville Elementary School
Friday, 8 January 2016
Sponsored by
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COAL CREEK SCHOLARS!!! (Picture
from 2010 Tusculum Tour)
WANT TO TOUR A COLLEGE CAMPUS
AND GET A FREE T-SHIRT!?
Hey, Coal Creek Scholars. Would you like to take a personal tour
of a college campus with the university president as your host?!
Dr.
Nancy Moody of Tusculum College has made such an offer.
If you are
interested in arranging a tour, contact Carol Moore
at (865) 584-0344 or
cmoore@schnabel-eng.com.
Results of the Coal Creek Scholars tour of Tusculum College
in 2010 can be found at
http://www.coalcreekaml.com/TusculumVisitMay2010.htm
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News Anchor
Amanda Hara
from WVLT-TV CBS
Channel 8News Brings
Coal Creek History to Life
As Briceville teacher Janis Bishop said in a recent
Clinton Courier News article, “When you have confidence, when you
know you have a heritage to be proud of, that makes a world of
difference on your outlook.” WVLT Channel 8
TV anchor Amanda Hara gave Briceville students a lesson
about their proud heritage with her report on the
Fraterville Mine Explosion and the Coal Creek War at
www.local8now.com/content/news/Fraterville-mine-explosion-killed-216-in-Anderson-County-370942841.html.
Special thanks to Bill Carey of Tennessee History for Kids
for his role in getting the Coal Creek Labor Saga included in the
education curriculum for 5th, 8th, and 11th
graders in Tennessee! |
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UPDATE -- APRIL 2016!!!
Sponsored by
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Coal Creek history presentations to
teachers and students and parents
RESULTS!
RESULTS!! Clairfield School --
Claiborne County, TN -- AND Dutch Valley School -- Anderson County, TN
-- COAL CREEK HISTORY LESSONS!
Anderson County High School:
We
made a presentation to ACHS teachers to assist them in teaching Coal Creek
history to 11th graders according to the new state standards as
shown at
http://www.coalcreekaml.com/TeachersACHS090215.htm.
Lake City Middle School: Thursday,
September 17th -- RESULTS
of teaching
Coal Creek history to 8th graders at
Lake City Middle School.
Norwood
Elementary School: Thursday October 22nd --
Petros-Joyner School
-- Friday, October 23rd -- 1:00 p.m.: History presentation
scheduled for the 5th through 8th grade students. RESULTS!!!
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JOIN US!!
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE
Work days for Coal Creek Scholars
and CCWF volunteers announced below!
SEE THE GREAT
RESULTS OF SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10th
Great crowd for our
work day on Saturday, October 10th at Briceville Church to do
clean-up and general maintenance.
SEE RESULTS OF OUR VOLUNTEER WORK DAY
ON
HISTORIC MILITIA HILL PERFORMED ON
SATURDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2015 |
The Coal Creek
History Saga
with Fred Brown
(A resource for complying
with the
new
Tennessee education
standards!)
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 15th Annual
Briceville
4th & 5th Grade
History Field Trip
15 May 2015
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PRESS RELEASE
INVITATION
FOR TENNESSEE TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS
Fun way to meet the TN state
education
curriculum requirement
for Tennessee History
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Coal Creek Miners Museum
Work Day 2015
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$60,000 awarded to
Coal Creek Scholars
12 May 2015
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CCWF
sets up American Chestnut Nursery
at Dutch Valley Elementary School
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A COAL CREEK CHRISTMAS
with Briceville School and
Coal Creek Scholars
18 December 2014 |
Carol Moore
receives the
2014 Starfish Award |
RESULTS OF
14th Annual
Coal Creek Health Day
31 October 2014 |
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MOUNTAIN MAYHEM!!
Students of all ages got a
taste of Coal Creek history on 18 October 2014, as described at
http://www.coalcreekaml.com/MountainMayhemTour.htm. History Bill Carey
brought his family, while Mark Davidson brought his “Mountain Mayhem” class
from Pellissippi State Community College. They were joined by six Coal
Creek Scholars and former Briceville student, Jeanie Robinson Ahrens, who is
writing a book about Briceville. |
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View AP story in
Knoxville News Sentinel |
 Coal
Creek Charter Board Member
John Thurman named
Trout Unlimited's
"National Leader In
Youth Education" |
Annual meeting with former
Briceville Students at Anderson County High School
All these students are eligible for our Coal Creek Scholarships over the
next four years!
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22 July
2014
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AWARDS ANNOUNCED!!
2014
Coal Creek
(Nantglo)
Scholarships
13 May 2014
(L to R): Lyndsey Phillips, Barry Thacker PE, Emily Patton, Drew Payne,
Carol Moore, Gordon Matheson, CEO of Schnabel Engineering |
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12th ANNUAL
COAL CREEK SCHOLARS
DAY
19 December 2013
A very special Coal Creek
Scholars Day at Briceville School
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SEE THE GREAT
COURIER NEWS STORY!
'Never forget where you came from..'
but go as far as an education will take you
An Open Invitation to
former and current
Briceville School Students
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COAL CREEK
WATERSHED FOUNDATION
RECEIVES
EXCELLENCE IN
REFORESTATION AWARD!!
4 November 2013
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L to R: Chris Miller (OSM), Carol Moore and
Barry Thacker (CCWF) Will DeBord (OSM),
and Vic Davis, Reforestation Consultant
(formerly with OSM)
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Checking the Health of the creek
Who
says 13 is
an unlucky number?
Read Chris Silcox' story in The
Courier News
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Saturday, 5 October 2013
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VIEW THE PlanET
study for the Musuem! |
BIG WEEK IN
COAL CREEK!
August 19 to 24, 2013
Lots of good stuff
to check out here! |
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HISTORY IN
COAL CREEK!
Kids and Adults form
HUMAN-CHAINS to
transfer books to
new Briceville Library
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Mock-up of two
new Historical Markers
to be placed at
the library site! |
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Coal Creek Watershed Foundation
awards the $10,000 Nantglo Scholarship
to the Iron Maiden of Coal Creek,
Victoria Wright |
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122 year-old
Coal Creek War ends...
Treaty of Peace signed
17 May 2013
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SEE RESULTS of our Annual Arbor Day Tree Planting Event with Lake City (Coal
Creek - Anderson County) Middle School and Wynn-Habersham School (Campbell
County) Students on a coal mining site.
More info on these activities is available by contacting
Carol Moore at 865-584-0344 Ext. 102 or
clmoore@geoe.com. (Cell: 865-660-2620
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RESULTS!!
Annual Coal Creek
Scholars Day
at Briceville School
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Knoxville
News Sentinel story
Foundation Helping Kids in Coal Creek Area |
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VIDEO OF Welshman Eirug Davies' LECTURE!!
Good news!!! Thanks to Adam H.
Alfrey of
the East TN History Center, Eirug Davies'
lecture is now up and live on ETHS' YouTube
Channel. The recording, which lasts about
an hour, can be accessed by
clicking here.
Listen to PODCAST of Dr. Eirug Davies'
interview with
WUOT's
Chrissy Keuper
http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/12/000847-eirug_davies_on_the_welsh_of_tennessee.html |
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the re-painting and restoration work at historic Briceville Church
November / December 2012
BEAUTIFUL!! |
RESULTS!!
Annual Coal Creek
Health Day at
Briceville School |
Coal Creek featured in national
Engineering Magazine
View
PDF of Article in October 2012
Engineering News Record |
Scholar
Chad Whitaker performs
research
at East TN History Center
ASSISTED IN RESEARCHING
AREA NEWSPAPERS
PUBLISHED
AT THE TIME OF
THE
COAL CREEK WAR
AND
THE HANGING OF
MINER DICK DRUMMOND |
 RESULTS!!
Installation of additional historic markers
A total of eighteen historic markers are now installed in the watershed to
mark the rich Coal Creek mining history. You can view them on a drive
through the area as shown on the Brochure of Coal Creek history
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COAL CREEK HISTORY TOURISM BROCHURE
CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW PDF
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 RESULTS!!
GPR study, Coal Creek ghosts,
and B. Rule
Stout tales
Oh My!
Briceville Elementary
School’s
12th Annual
Mining History Field Trip
18 May 2012
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 Engineering
Better Readers
KICK-OFF a success!!
View video of ABC-TV WATE's
news story about the
Engineering Better Readers Program
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 - PRESS RELEASE -
The Welsh of
Tennessee
Purchase new book
of Coal Creek history! |
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PDF of
by Barry Thacker, PE
to Knoxville Civitan Club
July 2012 |
 SPRING
CLEANING
RESULTS!!
Fraterville Miners' Memorial Highway
cleaned in honor of the miners!
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100th Anniversary of the
Cross Mountain Mine Disaster
9 December 2011
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Read:
Coal People Magazine article
January / February 2012
Message from the Darkness
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10th Annual
Coal Creek Scholars Day
& Santa's helpers visit
Briceville School
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Coal
Creek Health Day 2011
RESULTS!! |
 Coal
Creek Scholars
assist with preparations
100th Anniversary of
Cross Mountain Mine
Disaster Dedication Ceremony
Cleaning a church, clearing brush from
a cemetery, and installing a trail bench
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OCCUPY
COAL CREEK
RESULTS!!
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Tennessee Magazine articles about
Coal Creek history
September 2011
October 2011
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Learn more about the Welsh and visit
http://www.welshheritage.org/
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Annual Coal Creek History & Ecology Field trip with
students!
Check out the photos and results!
Briceville School 4th & 5th grade trip -- 20 May 2011
Lake City
Middle School 7th grade trip -- 11 May 2011
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 3rd Annual Arbor Day
Tree Planting Event
Kopper Glo Fuel site
26 April 2011 |
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Scholars Program featured in
Geo-Strata Magazine May-June 2011
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 Coal
Creek Scholars Day
and delayed Santa Visit
4 January 2010 |
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 Coal Creek Health Day
2010 and
Briceville Church/Cemetery
Dedication Ceremony
Checking the health
of Coal
Creek and
honoring a
historic
structure built by
the
Coal Creek miners
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 Coal
Creek Scholars visit
University of Tennessee
Engineering School
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First Historic Markers Installed at Fort Anderson on
Militia Hill
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Listen
to Podcast of NPR/UT live interview discussing Coal Creek War and history
Dialogue: (August) The Coal Creek War
The Cumberland Mountains to the north of Knoxville are home to most of the
coal mines in East Tennessee... and towns like Briceville, Fraterville, and
Lake City grew up around the mining industry. Lake City was once called Coal
Creek. In the 1890s, Coal Creek and the surrounding area experienced a major
labor uprising involving coal miners, leased convict labor, the Tennessee
Legislature and Governor's office and the state militia. On August's
Dialogue, Chrissy Keuper speaks with Barry Thacker and Carol Moore of the
Coal Creek Watershed Foundation about that period of East Tennessee
history...
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 Do
you know the connection between
Jesse James and Coal Creek?
Find out here!
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 Coal
Creek Scholars tour of
Tusculum College
27 May 2010 |
108th Anniversary of the Fraterville Mining Disaster
May 19, 1902 to May 19, 2010
In
honor of the anniversary, visit the new web site created by Bailey Francis.
If you have more information on the history of the miners or their
families,
E-MAIL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ETC. or write
on his blog at
http://www.seventyyearsinthecoalmines.blogspot.com/
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 Trout, American Chestnuts, and
Coal Creek
Mining History:
10th Annual History/Ecology
Field Trip for Briceville School
14 May 2010 |
2010 Nantglo
$10,000 scholarship
awarded to
Bethany Wrede |
 RESULTS OF ARBOR DAY
TREE PLANTING EVENT
Monday, April 12th
Click for more info
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Articles
in the
News! |
Bank
Stabilization
Projects
& Flood
Abatement |
Historic
Site
Preservation |
Annual
Coal
Creek
Health
Day |
American Chestnut
Restoration |
Trout nurseries
and reintroduction
of native species to
Coal Creek |
Coal Creek
Nantglo
Scholarship
Program
& Awards |
Awards & Honors |
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School Field Trips
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Welcome
to the online home of the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation, Inc. (CCWF), a
non-profit organization with a mission to
improve the quality of life in the Coal Creek watershed. We are
working as volunteers with government agencies and other
partners to effect change by combining the intellectual resources of our
engineers/scientists in East Tennessee with the common sense of the
residents from the Coal Creek watershed. |
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site describes one of the tasks underway to achieve our mission: mitigation of
coal mine drainage (CMD) impacts from abandoned sites mined prior to
the development of current regulations. We are working in coordination with the
Office of Surface Mining (OSM) through their Appalachian Clean Streams
Initiative (www.osmre.gov/acsihome.htm)
and other state and federal agencies to address the CMD problems.
(OSM water quality sampling) |
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| Coal Creek Deadwood Removal Day 2000
on Saturday, June 24, 2000, brought out 137 volunteers to remove deadwood
from bridge piers and thereby reduce flooding impacts. |
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We are in the process of developing the Coal Creek
Motor Discovery Trail to enable others to experience the unique history of
the scenic Coal Creek watershed. |
| On August 22, 2000, Congressman Zach Wamp, Anderson County Executive Rex Lynch,
TN State Rep. William Baird, Commissioner Albert Slusher, Commissioner Jerry
Creasey, and 250 students and volunteers participated in Coal Creek Discovery Day 2000
at Briceville Elementary School. |
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Barry Thacker, P.E. of CCWF, represented the 13-state Eastern Coal Region at the
National Watershed Forum, as part of the EPA's Clean Water
Action Plan. He was also named the Tennessee Conservation League's Water
Conservationist of the Year.
People are interested in Coal Creek as evidenced by the 10,000 visits per week
to this web site. If you want to join us, we could use your help. There are no monetary dues or
membership fees. Instead, you must share our mission to improve the
quality of life in the Coal Creek watershed and volunteer your time to
our initiative.
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 Watershed
map
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Vicinity map
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Fraterville Mine Disaster of 1902 can be found on the web site of Carl
Fritts at http://olecarl.com/FMD.html.
Link Briceville, Anderson County, TN site |
2011
Coal Creek Dream Contest
Coal Creek
2011
Coal Creek Watershed Foundation's Barry Thacker, PE,
President and Founder receives
Fraterville
Mine Disaster
Documentary in the works!!
View
the historic Photos from the time in the days
after the
Fraterville Mine Disaster of May 19, 1902
From the collection taken by Mr. W. L. Wilson 
Briceville
School
5th
Annual Coal Creek Scholars Day at Briceville
Coal
Creek loses a hero
2005
