Photo, Print, Drawing Aerial view of sludge dam at Shumate's branch

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • Aerial view of sludge dam at Shumate's branch

Names

  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • October 26, 1995

Headings

  • -  Fall
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed.
  • -  Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, daughter of Jacob and Celia Pettry, who had settled in Hazy Creek. The hollow was home to descendants of Clays, Pettrys and others until the mid-1980s, when the Peabody Coal Company implemented a plan formulated by Armco to build a "Shumate Branch Coal Refuse Impoundment." To clear the way for the impoundment, Peabody relocated several dozen families and a cemetery. A number of graves from the Clay family cemetery may be seen at the Pineview Cemetery in Orgas. At the foot of the dam, which measures ? feet high, is the Goals Preparation plant, and immediately downstream, the Marsh Fork Elementary School.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C044-10

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Credit line

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Chicago citation style:

Eiler, Lyntha Scott. Aerial view of sludge dam at Shumate's branch. , 1995. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000132/.

APA citation style:

Eiler, L. S. (1995) Aerial view of sludge dam at Shumate's branch. , 1995. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000132/.

MLA citation style:

Eiler, Lyntha Scott. Aerial view of sludge dam at Shumate's branch. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns000132/>.