Saturday, on our way from one horseback riding adventure to another, we stopped at the museum in Dunlap, TN on the site of their historic coke ovens. Coal was mined high on the mountain and brought down on a continuous, gravity powered, rail line in which the loaded cars going down, pulled the unloaded cars back up. At the bottom of the mountain, just below the lower set of coke ovens, was a rail line that hauled the coal and coke to market. The museum included several photographs of early steam power from that period. Outside, there was a caboose donated by Norfolk Western and several other historical objects preserved from the era of the coke ovens. Also outside, was one of the last remaining, pristine, locations of the Trail of Tears that hasn't been paved over. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
That's one nice place to learn about history. Very well presented! Their gravity-powered system must be a fascinating mechanism to study.
Another example. We had some in southwest Wisconsin for lead mining. There special caves like wells where they may bullets for the Civil War. Done by the POWs. That part of the state was part of the Confederacy.
