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Briceville and played
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.

Briceville and major
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 and coal
Briceville and the Coal Creek Valley grew rapidly in the 1890s as the demand for coal soared.
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.

Briceville and mining
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.

Briceville and Coal
Historical marker in Briceville, recalling the Coal Creek War
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

Briceville and 1891
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.

Briceville and Fraterville
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.
A large memorial service for the Fraterville deceased was held at the Briceville church on June 8, 1902.
As of 2011, it served a population of about 1, 400 in Briceville and northwestern Anderson County, with 332 post office boxes in the post office and one rural postal carrier route extending from Fraterville to the New River community.
Tennessee State Route 116 connects Fraterville with Briceville to the south and Lake City to the north.
Fraterville, Tennessee is an unincorporated community located on State Route 116 in Anderson County, Tennessee, between the towns of Lake City and Briceville.

Briceville and Mine
On December 9, 1911, an explosion occurred at the Cross Mountain Mine, which lay at the end of Slatestone Hollow in the extreme west of Briceville.

Briceville and 1902
A large memorial service was conducted at the Briceville Community Church on June 8, 1902.

Briceville and Cross
WOKI's tower, while on 100. 3, was located on Cross Mountain ( elevation 3534 ft .) north of Briceville, Tennessee, and accordingly, its signal could be received throughout east Tennessee as well as significant parts of southeastern Kentucky, and in small portions of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Georgia.

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

Briceville and .
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.
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.
Three of the conflict's chief instigators — Eugene Merrell, George Irish, and S. D. Moore — lived in Briceville.
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.
The legislature rejected the miners ' demands, however, and on October 31, the miners burned the Briceville stockade and freed all of its convicts.

played and important
He had almost forgotten them, although they had played such an important part in his early dreams.
In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).
Stones played an important part in the cult of the god, especially in the oracular shrine of Delphi ( Omphalos ).
Astronomy certainly played an important role in Chaco culture, as it is visible in the north-south axis alignment of many ceremonial structures.
The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.
Sound recording and the telephone played important roles in a global transformation of society.
The river played an important role in the growth of the economy in the region during the 19th century as a source of transportation of goods.
A peace treaty was signed in Seville in 1339 and, in the next year, Portuguese troops played an important role in the victory of the Battle of Rio Salado over the Marinid Moors in October 1340.
He composed also a number of different works including many art songs in different languages and a number of important piano pieces, like the five " Doloras " ( 1914 ), which he later orchestrated and are normally played in concerts in Chile and Latinamerica.
Regarding their applications, amorphous metallic layers played an important role in the discussion of a suspected superconductivity in amorphous metals.
These conditions played an important role in the development of the structure theory of commutative rings in the works of David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, and Emil Artin.
His other important works include his Letters to Serapion, which dealt with the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and his classic Life of St Anthony, which was translated into several languages and played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity.
It has traditionally been a leader in the inter-American community and played an important role in collective security efforts, as well as in economic cooperation in the Western Hemisphere.
As an album regarded by many as the start of the gangsta rap movement, Criminal Minded played an important role in reaffirming the social acceptance of having Jamaican roots.
Boats played a very important part in the commerce between the Indus Valley Civilization and Mesopotamia.
Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.
Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.
Although the Royal Navy is widely regarded as having been vital for the rise of the British Empire, and British dominance of the world, the British Army played an important role in the colonisation of India and other regions.
The study of animal communication, called zoosemiotics ( distinguishable from anthroposemiotics, the study of human communication ) has played an important part in the development of ethology, sociobiology, and the study of animal cognition.
Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans, and some scientists believe the advent of cooking played an important role in human evolution.
The military has played an important role in the history of Central African Republic.
It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

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