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Coal Creek Watershed Foundation
awards the $10,000 Nantglo Scholarship
to the Iron Maiden of Coal Creek,
Victoria Wright |
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EVENTS & VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
As described
below, we have listed events and
opportunities to which we would like to invite you.
122 year-old
Coal Creek War ends...
Treaty of Peace signed on 17 May 2013
SEE RESULTS of our Annual Arbor Day Tree Planting Event with Lake City (Coal
Creek - Anderson County) Middle School and Wynn-Habersham School (Campbell
County) Students on a coal mining site.
More info on these activities is available by contacting
Carol Moore at 865-584-0344 Ext. 102 or
clmoore@geoe.com. (Cell: 865-660-2620)
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RESULTS!!
Annual Coal Creek
Scholars Day
at Briceville School
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Knoxville
News Sentinel story
Foundation Helping Kids in Coal Creek Area |
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View the results of visit |
VIDEO OF Welshman Eirug Davies' LECTURE!!
Good news!!! Thanks to Adam H.
Alfrey of
the East TN History Center, Eirug Davies'
lecture is now up and live on ETHS' YouTube
Channel. The recording, which lasts about
an hour, can be accessed by
clicking here.
Listen to PODCAST of Dr. Eirug Davies'
interview with
WUOT's
Chrissy Keuper
http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2012/12/000847-eirug_davies_on_the_welsh_of_tennessee.html |
 View
the re-painting and restoration work at historic Briceville Church
November / December 2012
BEAUTIFUL!! |
RESULTS!!
Annual Coal Creek
Health Day at
Briceville School |
Coal Creek featured in national
Engineering Magazine
View
PDF of Article in October 2012
Engineering News Record |
Scholar
Chad Whitaker performs
research
at East TN History Center
ASSISTED IN RESEARCHING
AREA NEWSPAPERS
PUBLISHED
AT THE TIME OF
THE
COAL CREEK WAR
AND
THE HANGING OF
MINER DICK DRUMMOND |
 RESULTS!!
Installation of additional historic markers
A total of eighteen historic markers are now installed in the watershed to
mark the rich Coal Creek mining history. You can view them on a drive
through the area as shown on the Brochure of Coal Creek history
HERE. |
COAL CREEK HISTORY TOURISM BROCHURE
CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW PDF
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 RESULTS!!
GPR study, Coal Creek ghosts,
and B. Rule
Stout tales
Oh My!
Briceville Elementary
School’s
12th Annual
Mining History Field Trip
18 May 2012
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 Engineering
Better Readers
KICK-OFF a success!!
View video of ABC-TV WATE's
news story about the
Engineering Better Readers Program
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 - PRESS RELEASE -
The Welsh of
Tennessee
Purchase new book
of Coal Creek history! |
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PDF of
by Barry Thacker, PE
to Knoxville Civitan Club
July 2012 |
 SPRING
CLEANING
RESULTS!!
Fraterville Miners' Memorial Highway
cleaned in honor of the miners!
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100th Anniversary of the
Cross Mountain Mine Disaster
9 December 2011
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Read:
Coal People Magazine article
January / February 2012
Message from the Darkness
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10th Annual
Coal Creek Scholars Day
& Santa's helpers visit
Briceville School
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Coal
Creek Health Day 2011
RESULTS!! |
 Coal
Creek Scholars
assist with preparations
100th Anniversary of
Cross Mountain Mine
Disaster Dedication Ceremony
Cleaning a church, clearing brush from
a cemetery, and installing a trail bench
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OCCUPY
COAL CREEK
RESULTS!!
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Tennessee Magazine articles about Coal Creek history
September 2011
October 2011
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Annual Coal Creek History & Ecology Field trip with
students!
Check out the photos and results!
Briceville School 4th & 5th grade trip -- 20 May 2011
Lake City
Middle School 7th grade trip -- 11 May 2011
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 3rd Annual Arbor Day
Tree Planting Event
Kopper Glo Fuel site
26 April 2011 |
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Scholars Program featured in
Geo-Strata Magazine May-June 2011
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 Coal
Creek Scholars Day
and delayed Santa Visit
4 January 2010 |
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 Coal Creek Health Day
2010 and
Briceville Church/Cemetery
Dedication Ceremony
Checking the health
of Coal
Creek and
honoring a
historic
structure built by
the
Coal Creek miners
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 Coal
Creek Scholars visit
University of Tennessee
Engineering School
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First Historic Markers Installed at Fort Anderson on
Militia Hill
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Listen
to Podcast of NPR/UT live interview discussing Coal Creek War and history
Dialogue: (August) The Coal Creek War
The Cumberland Mountains to the north of Knoxville are home to most of the
coal mines in East Tennessee... and towns like Briceville, Fraterville, and
Lake City grew up around the mining industry. Lake City was once called Coal
Creek. In the 1890s, Coal Creek and the surrounding area experienced a major
labor uprising involving coal miners, leased convict labor, the Tennessee
Legislature and Governor's office and the state militia. On August's
Dialogue, Chrissy Keuper speaks with Barry Thacker and Carol Moore of the
Coal Creek Watershed Foundation about that period of East Tennessee
history...
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 Do
you know the connection between
Jesse James and Coal Creek?
Find out here!
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 Coal
Creek Scholars tour of
Tusculum College
27 May 2010 |
108th Anniversary of the Fraterville Mining Disaster
May 19, 1902 to May 19, 2010
In
honor of the anniversary, visit the new web site created by Bailey Francis.
If you have more information on the history of the miners or their
families,
E-MAIL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, ETC. or write
on his blog at
http://www.seventyyearsinthecoalmines.blogspot.com/
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 Trout, American Chestnuts, and
Coal Creek
Mining History:
10th Annual History/Ecology
Field Trip for Briceville School
14 May 2010 |
2010 Nantglo
$10,000 scholarship
awarded to
Bethany Wrede |
 RESULTS OF ARBOR DAY
TREE PLANTING EVENT
Monday, April 12th
Click for more info
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Articles
in the
News! |
Bank
Stabilization
Projects
& Flood
Abatement |
Historic
Site
Preservation |
Annual
Coal
Creek
Health
Day |
American Chestnut
Restoration |
Trout nurseries
and reintroduction
of native species to
Coal Creek |
Coal Creek
Nantglo
Scholarship
Program
& Awards |
Awards & Honors |
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School Field Trips
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EVENTS AND
ACTIVITIES:
COAL CREEK SCHOLARS DAY AND EARLY VISIT
FROM SANTA:
"You have the possibility of
making a million dollars more over your career if you get a college degree!"
said Barry Thacker to the Briceville 4th and 5th graders to begin Coal Creek
Scholars Day.
 BANK STABILIZATION PROJECT
#5 IN FRATERVILLE:
Our fifth bank stabilization project is underway in Fraterville. Tree
planting on the site is next and we will need volunteers.
Click here to view the photos of the
Fraterville project.
EFFORTS
TO RESTORE AND PRESERVE HISTORIC BRICEVILLE CHURCH CONTINUE:
We continue our ongoing efforts to preserve
and protect Coal Creek's historic Briceville Church built in 1888 by Welsh
immigrant coal miners. See the latest results of the restoration
efforts. If you are interested in helping with this effort, contact
Carol Moore at 865-584-0344 or
clmoore@geoe.com. Labor, materials, and monetary contributions are
welcomed and needed!
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 Coal Creek Watershed Foundation's Barry Thacker, PE,
President and Founder receives
2009 Professional Practice Ethics and Leadership Award
issued jointly by the
American Society
of Civil Engineers and
ASFE, an international,
not-for-profit association of geoprofessional firms. |
 Coal
Creek Scholar
Jonathan Sharp inspiring
others and paying it forward |
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 Trout, American Chestnuts, and Coal Creek
Mining History:
9th Annual History/Ecology Field Trip for Briceville School
15 May 2009 |
 Arbor
Day 2009
1200 trees planted!!
Saturday, 4 April 2009 |
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 PILOT
PROJECT!
Trout Hatchery in
Briceville School
classroom |
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 Coal
Creek Scholars Day
(with a visit from Santa's Helpers) |
 Coal Creek Health Day 2008 --
See the
results! |
 2008
Coal Creek Nantglo
Scholarships announced! |
 First
Coal Creek Scholar Amy Dugger receives Masters Degree |
 Joint
Briceville and Elk Valley School History Field Trip results |
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Welcome
to the online home of the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation, Inc. (CCWF), a
non-profit organization with a mission to
improve the quality of life in the Coal Creek watershed. We are
working as volunteers with government agencies and other
partners to effect change by combining the intellectual resources of our
engineers/scientists in East Tennessee with the common sense of the
residents from the Coal Creek watershed. |
| The "CMD" section of this web
site describes one of the tasks underway to achieve our mission: mitigation of
coal mine drainage (CMD) impacts from abandoned sites mined prior to
the development of current regulations. We are working in coordination with the
Office of Surface Mining (OSM) through their Appalachian Clean Streams
Initiative (www.osmre.gov/acsihome.htm)
and other state and federal agencies to address the CMD problems.
(OSM water quality sampling) |
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| Coal Creek Deadwood Removal Day 2000
on Saturday, June 24, 2000, brought out 137 volunteers to remove deadwood
from bridge piers and thereby reduce flooding impacts. |
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We are in the process of developing the Coal Creek
Motor Discovery Trail to enable others to experience the unique history of
the scenic Coal Creek watershed. |
| On August 22, 2000, Congressman Zach Wamp, Anderson County Executive Rex Lynch,
TN State Rep. William Baird, Commissioner Albert Slusher, Commissioner Jerry
Creasey, and 250 students and volunteers participated in Coal Creek Discovery Day 2000
at Briceville Elementary School. |
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Barry Thacker, P.E. of CCWF, represented the 13-state Eastern Coal Region at the
National Watershed Forum, as part of the EPA's Clean Water
Action Plan. He was also named the Tennessee Conservation League's Water
Conservationist of the Year.
People are interested in Coal Creek as evidenced by the 10,000 visits per week
to this web site. If you want to join us, we could use your help. There are no monetary dues or
membership fees. Instead, you must share our mission to improve the
quality of life in the Coal Creek watershed and volunteer your time to
our initiative.
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 Watershed
map
Click on image to enlarge |
Vicinity map
Click on image to enlarge |
| Additional historical information on the
Fraterville Mine Disaster of 1902 can be found on the web site of Carl
Fritts at http://olecarl.com/FMD.html.
Link Briceville, Anderson County, TN site |
2011
Coal Creek Dream Contest
Coal Creek
2011
Fraterville
Mine Disaster
Documentary in the works!!
View
the historic Photos from the time in the days
after the
Fraterville Mine Disaster of May 19, 1902
From the collection taken by Mr. W. L. Wilson 
Briceville
School
5th
Annual Coal Creek Scholars Day at Briceville
Coal
Creek loses a hero
2005
