Abstract This collection documents the Virginia Coal & Iron Company. The material is separated into the main categories of land, legal matters, payroll, checks, and correspondence. The majority of this collection consists of legal documents relating to land disputes between the company and the families from whom the land was bought. Also present are the returned checks to workers that were hurt on the job in the coal mines.Most of the correspondence is between the company and other...

Abstract This collection of the Virginia Coal & Iron Company Records, 1883-1915, contains 22 coal export reports and letters from the Philadelphia Commercial Museum in Philadelphia, Pa., to the Virginia Coal & Iron Co., as well as 15 documents for railroads in the South and Northeast. Many of these include references to the Virginia Coal & Iron Co., Virginia Iron, Coal, & Coke Co., Interstate Railroad Co. in Virginia, Interstate Coal & Iron Co. in Virginia, and Looney Creek...