The buildings are basically intact for all practical purpose. The site needs some work, but this is the identifying site of the state’s worst coal mining disaster and that needs to be preserved.

First, it’s the site where the bodies of the miners were recovered following the Christmas disaster and it’s also the site where legendary UMW President John L. Lewis went underground only two days after the...

I feel that we should all be made aware of that site and that it should remain intact. Coal mining has made resurgence and with every tragedy comes a benefit and the benefit from the...

If there ever is a national coal mining museum I will push that this site should be preserved as either a memorial site or an extension or a part of such a site.