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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
The Sludge Dam at Shumate's Branch, rising above the Marsh Fork Elementary School. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
October 26, 1995
Notes
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed.
"Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, daughter of Jacob and Celia Pettry, who had settled in Hazy Creek. The hollow was home to descendants of Clays, Pettrys and others until the mid-1980s, when the Peabody Coal Company implemented a plan formulated by Armco to build a "Shumate Branch Coal Refuse Impoundment." To clear the way for the impoundment, Peabody relocated several dozen families and a cemetery. A number of graves from the Clay family cemetery may be seen at the Pineview Cemetery in Orgas. At the foot of the dam, which measures ? feet high, is the Goals Preparation plant, and immediately downstream, the Marsh Fork Elementary School.
Note the Marsh Fork Elementary School, just below the dam, lower left."
Subjects
Fall
October
Goals Preparation Plant
Eagle mine
Eagle seam
Sludge dam (wet refuse impoundment)
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Shumate's Branch
Sundial, WV
Raleigh County
Object Type
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C043-13
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec04313
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec04313