Coal Creek and the nearby town of Briceville were the site of a major lockout of coal miners in 1891, which resulted in the town of Coal Creek being occupied by the state militia for over a year after miners attempted to force an end to the use of unpaid convict labor in the mines.

Briceville played an important role in three major late-19th and early-20th century incidents related to the region's coal mining activities: the Coal Creek War in 1891, the Fraterville Mine disaster of 1902, and the Cross Mountain Mine disaster of 1911.

Historical marker in Briceville, recalling the Coal Creek War

In the early 1890s, Briceville played a central role in the Coal Creek War, a labor uprising that grew out of local coal miners ' opposition to the state's practice of leasing prisoners to businesses, which reduced the need for conventional labor.

In the spring of 1891, miners at the Tennessee Coal Mining Company ( TCMC ) mine in Briceville went on strike after the company demanded they sign an iron-clad contract.

* Coal Creek Watershed Foundation has extensive historical articles the Coal Creek War and Fraterville Mine disaster, and current environmental and educational initiatives in Briceville

Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary opened in 1896 in the aftermath of the Coal Creek War, an 1891 lockout of coal miners that took place in Coal Creek and Briceville, Tennessee, after miners protested the use of unpaid convict leasing in the mines.

The church was initially non-denominational, but as the community's population grew, Baptists and Presbyterians built their own churches, and in 1896 the Briceville Community Church became a Methodist church.

The mining town of Briceville, Tennessee, which he proved instrumental in helping to connect to railroad service, is named for him.

Merrell, a French-born Knights of Labor activist, had been chased out of mining towns in Indiana before settling in Briceville, where he was blacklisted for Union activities in 1889, and made his living operating a mercantile store.

On July 16, Buchanan met with the Briceville miners at Thistle Switch ( just north of Briceville ), where he made a plea for calm, but was shouted down by Merrell, who demanded the governor enforce the state's laws against iron-clad contracts.

A large memorial service for the Fraterville deceased was held at the Briceville church on June 8, 1902.

* 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

Briceville is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Tennessee.

The Briceville zip code, 37710, which also includes a large remote mountain area west of the community formerly served by the now-closed Devonia, Tennessee post office, had a population of 1, 441 as of the 2000 U. S. Census.

After this line's completion, the Slatestone Hollow community was renamed " Briceville.

By 1900, the valley had over 4, 000 residents, and by 1910 Briceville was the largest community in Anderson County.

Briceville's most prominent structure, the Briceville Community Church, was built by volunteers in 1887 on a hill near the center of the community.

Three of the conflict's chief instigators — Eugene Merrell, George Irish, and S. D. Moore — lived in Briceville.

To break the strike, TCMC leased several dozen convicts from the state, built a stockade in Briceville to house them, and reopened its mine on July 5, 1891.

The legislature rejected the miners ' demands, however, and on October 31, the miners burned the Briceville stockade and freed all of its convicts.

In 1902, an explosion occurred at a mine in Fraterville — which lies almost adjacent to Briceville to the northeast — killing 216 miners, including several Briceville residents.

Coal bearing formations are concentrated in the Georges Creek Basin in the

North of Fulton, Wabash Township has the town of Coal Creek.

The nineteen elementary schools include Big Creek Elementary School, Brookwood Elementary School, Chattahoochee Elementary School, Chestatee Elementary School, Coal Mountain Elementary School, Cumming Elementary School, Daves Creek Elementary School, Haw Creek Elementary School, Johns Creek Elementary School, Kelly Mill Elementary School, Mashburn Elementary School, Matt Elementary School, Midway Elementary School, Sawnee Elementary School, Settles Bridge Elementary School, Sharon Elementary School, Shiloh Point Elementary School, Silver City Elementary School, Vickery Creek Elementary School, and Whitlow Elementary School.

* Coal Creek Canyon

Cottage Point Kiosk and Boat Hire, built around 1918, is situated at Cottage Point at the entrance to Coal and Candle Creek.

* Coal Creek Canyon Community Website

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New Richmond is a town in Coal Creek Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.

The town's volunteer fire department, Coal Creek Twp Fire & Rescue set off the fireworks.

Wingate, formerly known as Pleasant Hill, is a town in Coal Creek Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.

Keystone opened new mines south of Rippey into the 20th century, where they were joined by the Snake Creek Coal company and the Buckeye coal company.

In 1871, W. C. Wilson of Webster City opened a coal mine in Lehigh and formed the Crooked Creek Railroad and Coal Company.

Wallins Creek began life as a coalmining town in 1925 ; the mine was owned by the Wallins Creek Coal Corporation.

The Georges Creek Coal Company had built a railroad from Piedmont to Knapp's Meadow to link the newly opened coal fields with the Eastern city markets by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which had been extended from Cumberland to Piedmont in 1851.

The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, after purchasing the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Railroad, completed the laying of track from Cumberland to Knapp's Meadow so that the valley from Cumberland to Westernport, by way of Mt.

This mine would be bought by the George's Creek Coal Company who later leased it to Bob Loar and Charlie Eagan.

The railroads had pulled out by 1950, and the last mine, Billy Creek Coal Mine southwest of Novinger, closed in January 1966.