Steel Company of Wales, a British steelmaker, wants to bring in Virginia coal, cut down on its takings of Welsh coal in order to be able to compete more effectively -- especially in foreign markets.

* 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

* 1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.

* 2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.

Although originally built for general commerce, this C & O rail link to the midwest was soon also being used to transport bituminous coal from the previously isolated coalfields, adjacent to the New River and the Kanawha River in West Virginia.

In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.

And right before that, we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners.

Maybe the Lord's tired of having the mountains of West Virginia, the tops knocked off of them so they may get more coal.

** A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop coal mine in Bishop, Virginia kills 37 men.

* December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia, United States.

** A coal mine explosion in West Virginia kills 50 miners.

** A coal sludge spill kills 125 people in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia.

The youth worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in West Virginia for several years, then made his way east to Hampton Institute, a school established to educate freedmen, where he worked to pay for his studies.

The county was the scene in 1914 of the Eccles Mine Disaster, the second-worst coal mining disaster in West Virginia history.

In 1881, 15 years of explosive development began under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opened up transportation along the Peninsula and provided a new pathway for the railroad to bring West Virginia bituminous coal to port for coastal shipping and worldwide export.

Additionally, coal trains from West Virginia headed eastbound for Washington, D. C. and Northern Virginia were routed on the new line to avoid steep mountain grades.

Most of the coal is within the Main Bituminous Field, which stretched north and west to adjacent counties and southward into Maryland and West Virginia.

Some sources say veteran prospector Truman H. Aldrich assembled these lands as part of his extensive coal properties, others cite two red-headed brothers, George and E. T. Shuler as having opened the Virginia Mine in 1902.

In the late 18th century and early to mid part of the 19th century, coal and timber was loaded onto flatboats where George's Creek empties into the Potomac, then floated down to near Great Falls, Virginia, where the goods were unloaded, the boats broken up to sell as lumber, and the operators walking back to Westernport.

Although the village's economy was once largely supported by the coal industry, most residents currently seek employment outside village limits in nearby towns and cities such as Moundsville and Wheeling, West Virginia.

The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.

Virginia Senator Jim Webb made the 2007 response and Rep. Xavier Becerra of California delivered the Spanish version.

Again with Trumbauer, Beiderbecke re-recorded Carmichael's " Riverboat Shuffle " in May and delivered two of his best known solos a few days later on " I'm Coming, Virginia " and " Way Down Yonder in New Orleans ".

Patrick Henry delivered his, " Liberty or Death ", speech at Saint John's Church, Richmond, Virginia | St. John's Church in Richmond, helping to ignite the American Revolution.

Lucy Virginia Meriweather Davies, M. D., was a relative of Meriwether Lewis ( of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ) and a general practitioner who, in her time, delivered a significant part of Rockland's population: 7, 000 babies.

A year later, Farley's daughters Maria Farley and Rebecca Parke Farley sold their shares to Patrick Henry of Virginia, the man who delivered the " Give me Liberty, or give me Death!

It is probable that in December 1753, George Washington, accompanied by Christopher Gist, pushed his way across Fox Chapel land as he came south from Fort Le Boeuf where he had delivered a letter to the French commander, ordering him, in the name of the Governor of Virginia, to return to Canada.

Patrick Henry gave his famous " Liberty or Death " speech at the courthouse two days before he famously delivered it in Richmond, Virginia.

By the fourteenth, Greene's army had outrun the British and crossed the Dan River at Irvine's ferry in Halifax County, Virginia with boats being delivered from Boyd's ferry in Halifax and from Dix's ferry in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Field delivered the Court's unanimous opinion which upheld the West Virginia statute.

The first of these Mark XI bombsights was delivered to the Navy's proving grounds in Virginia in 1924.

Geological field excursion to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, April 30, 1897, following the George Huntington Williams Memorial Lectures delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie at Johns Hopkins University.

Water was brought to the inlet in the Sierra Nevada range from sources of supply in two large covered flumes, and at the outlet end of the pipe was delivered in two large flumes a distance of to Virginia City.

Skinner has delivered many prestigious lecture-series, including the Gauss Seminars at Princeton ( 1980 ), the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford ( 1980 ), the Messenger Lectures at Cornell ( 1983 ), the Tanner Lectures at Harvard ( 1984 ), the T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Kent ( 1995 ), the Ford Lectures at Oxford ( 2003 ), the Page-Barbour Lectures at Virginia ( 2003 ), the Benedict Lectures at Boston ( 2005 ) and the Adorno Lectures at Frankfurt ( 2005 ).

File: Geikie Powell Walcott in Harpers Ferry 1897. jpg | Sir Archibald Geikie, John Wesley Powell, and Charles Doolittle Walcott on a geological field excursion to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, May 1897, following the George Huntington Williams Memorial Lectures delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie at Johns Hopkins University

Virginia Overland operated several bus dealerships serving primarily Virginia and North Carolina, most notably a franchise for Wayne Corporation which delivered over 2, 000 new school and commercial buses between 1976 and 1990.

Between 1856 and 1876, he delivered mail between Placerville, California and Genoa, Nevada and later Virginia City, Nevada.

* The first 2-6-6-4 steam locomotives in the world are delivered to the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad.

When the Virginia delegation was threatened with expulsion at the 1952 Democratic Party national convention for refusing to sign a loyalty oath to whomever the party nominated, Battle delivered a speech to the convention that forestalled expulsion and helped prevent a split like the Democrats experienced in 1948.

The proprietary Virginia Company of London had established the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia in 1607, and delivered supplies and additional settlers in 1608, raising the English colony's population to 200, despite many deaths.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The mild activity of his command during the sojourn of the troops at Valley Forge could be handled by a subordinate, he felt, so like Henry Knox, equally loyal to Washington, who went to Boston at this time, Morgan received permission to visit his home in Virginia for several weeks.

Another Virginia sight and a photographic adventure are the Luray Caverns, lit by photofloodlights.

The Middle-South Region, as defined by the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials ( NAIRO ), consists of the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

The war also expanded with naval operations in 1862 when the CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, damaged or destroyed three Union vessels in Norfolk, Virginia, before being engaged and damaged by the USS Monitor.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.

One recognized the Virginia government organized and led by Gov.

The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

She is the subject of a poem ( Peregrine White and Virginia Dare ) by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet, and the North Carolina Legend of the White Doe.

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

The new incarnation of the journal was edited by Ormond Stone ( University of Virginia ).