Coal Creek Scholars act as
tour guides at
historic Coal Creek sites
Saturday, 6 May 2006
The two-hour tours had to be extended to three-hours to accommodate over 100 people who took advantage of free tours offered at two of the historic sites in Coal Creek on Saturday, May 6th. The Coal Creek Watershed Foundation sponsored the tours at the Fraterville Mine site and Militia Hill. The tours were offered as part of Lake City’s Coal Creek Miners’ Festival being held that day.
Jennie, Jacob & Cassie Phillips dressed like the miners and Tennessee
Militia might have appeared during the Coal Creek War
Scholars gather at Militia Hill
for tour practice and history lessons
Scholars visited the sites for history lessons from Barry Thacker, PE before the tour date:
Militia Hill tour:
Fraterville mine site tour:
Scholars
April Golden and April Byrge (seated middle) discuss the history of
Fraterville with a few of the visitors
Scholar Phillip
Smith gestures towards the remnant of the structure that once was part of
the steam engine at Fraterville