Briceville Scholars Bowl
Team Members teach
University of Tennessee Forestry
and Wildife Students
about
Coal Creek Ecology
and Mining History
17 January 2008
A few of the
Briceville Scholars
Bowl students pose
with two UT
students
For the past several years, Dr. Mark Fly’s Forestry and Wildlife students from the University of Tennessee have led educational programs for students at Briceville Elementary School. This year, members of Briceville’s Scholars Bowl Team returned the favor by teaching UT students about Coal Creek ecology and mining history.
Briceville's 2007/2008 Scholar's Bowl Team includes:
4th grader: Carmon Procise
5th graders: Shea Hooks, Holley Smith, Katie Weaver, Emilee Hooks, Peyton Jenkins, Shaddy Carroll, and Tallen Roldan.
Stops and topics discussed along the tour are listed below. Click on images to enlarge:
 | The Clinch River weir dam upstream of where Coal Creek discharges into the Clinch River |
| Lenoir Museum |
| Fraterville Miners’ Circle at Leach Cemetery |
| Fort Anderson on Militia Hill |
| Drummond Bridge where the miner
Dick Drummond was lynched during the Coal Creek War |
| Bank stabilization project along Coal Creek at Briceville School |
| Coal Creek Fish Restoration Project at Briceville School |
| Restoration of Briceville Church that was built by Welsh miners in 1888 |
| Effort to restore the American chestnut to Appalachian forests by planting seeds and seedlings on reclaimed mine land |
| Stormwater sampling program on upper Coal Creek in Tennessee Hollow |
