In the late 1700s to mid-1800s, coal miners worked in dim light, fueled at first by candles affixed to their heads, and later by whale’s oil lamps. Hundreds of years later, Underground Miners, a ...
LANSFORD — In “Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford sings of a coal miner made of muscle and blood who’s capable of loading 16 tons of No. 9 coal, bless his soul. At the historic No. 9 Mine, about 10 ...