Exploring Small Mining Town Monongah, WV: Boggess General Store, Coca-Cola Sign & Old Ice Cream Shop

Описание: July 2, 2024

Driving around exploring rural small mining town Monongah, West Virginia in Marion County. The town was charted in 1891. The West Fork of the Monongahela River runs through town and Booths Creek runs into the West Fork.

The old Boggess & Sons General Store is also known as the old Shenasky grocery store. The Shenasky owned the grocery store for a few decades before it became known as the Boggess store.

The Dairy Kone is an ice cream shop that has been in town since 1968.

The town is where the 1907 Monongah Mining disaster was located. Over 362 people were killed in a mining explosion known as the worst mining disaster in the United States history.

...."Memorials were erected in the center of town to recognize the centennial of the mining disaster on December 7, 2007. One memorial, titled Monongah Heroine, consists of a statue of a mother holding a baby with a young child beside her. It is dedicated to the widows and mothers of the miners who died. The inspiration for the statue is reported to have come from Catarina Davia, a woman widowed by the disaster. Feeling betrayed by the coal company for lack of compensation after her husband's death she vowed to make the 1.3 mile trek from her home to the mine to steal a satchel of coal every day until she died. She didn't only do this once every day but she did it twice. Her house was still standing until an accidental fire burned the house down on September 10, 2010. A second memorial, consisting of an engraved metal bell and plaque, was placed by the Italians to recognize the many victims from Molise in southern Italy.".....

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Monongah mining disaster:
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