Blocton The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town
by Adams, Charles Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0971191301
- ISBN 13
- 9780971191303
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About This Item
Cahaba Trace Commission. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0971191301 . Red cover with gold lettering. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover.The saga begins with two entrepreneurs, Truman Aldrich and Cornelius Cadle, who created the Cahaba Coal Mining Company and pushed a railroad eight miles into the wilderness of Bibb County, Alabama to tap thick veins of coal deep underground. There, they built the town called Blocton. Beside the company town rose West Blocton. The social fabric of the two communities was extraordinary containing a tapestry of nationalities from Italians to Russian Jews, Slavs, and Welsh. Beautiful collectors grade copy of this book. ; Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages .
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- A Book Legacy (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58845
- Title
- Blocton The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town
- Author
- Adams, Charles Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0971191301
- ISBN 13
- 9780971191303
- Publisher
- Cahaba Trace Commission
- Place of Publication
- Brierfield Alabama
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 0971191301, Alabama, bibb county, Tuscaloosa County, Genealogy, Coal Mining, History, Town Histories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Alabama;
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