Rules and Regulations of the Navigation Company of Coal River, 1874 - 1971.

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Rules and Regulations of the Navigation Company of Coal River, 1874 - 1971.

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Consists of the poster of the Rules and Regulations of the Navigation Company of Coal River and William H. Dean's "Steamboat Whistles on the Coal" from West Virginia History, which details the history of the Navigation Company of Coal River.

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Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.

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Navigation Company of Coal River.

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Coal River is located in West Virginia. It flows from its mouth at Saint Albans to the Great Kanawha for ninteen miles. The left branch going up river is the Big Coal River. Various forms of coal is deposited in its basin. Navigation of it began in 1855, twenty-five years before the Kanawha River was dammed. In 1849, Virginia issued a charter to the Coal River Navigation Company for navigation construction and was maintained as both a private and public entity. Eight locks and dams ...

William, Dean H.

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