Briceville School 4th and 5th grade students visited historic sites in the Coal Creek Watershed during our 7thth annual coal mining history field trip. We visited Drummond Bridge where Dick Drummond was lynched by the Tennessee Militia during the Coal Creek War. We also toured historic Leach and Longfield Cemeteries where many of the Fraterville Miners are buried. We stopped by the Lenoir Museum in Norris to view Appalachian history and got a lesson on energy at the TVA Norris Dam. We finished up with lunch at the Cracker Barrel and then visited Briceville Cemetery. | Click on image to enlarge
Briceville students at Coal Creek |
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DRUMMOND BRIDGE: | ||
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At Leach Cemetery the students located the headstone of Welsh coal miner Rees R. Thomas' son, David R. Thomas. David donated his father's Welsh book collection to Harvard University Library. | ||
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The students learned that 64% of the electricity in the Tennessee Valley is still provided by coal. |
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LONGFIELD CEMETERY: | ||
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The students relax on the porch of the Cracker Barrel after lunch |
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BRICEVILLE CHURCH AND CEMETERY:
Exploring the cemetery at Briceville Community Church where miners killed at the Fraterville Mine in 1902 and the Cross Mountain Mine in 1911 are buried. Students gathered at the headstone of Eugene Ault who left a message before he died in the Cross Mountain Mine Disaster of 1911. |
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