Common sense isn't.
Credit goes to the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation's web page (requires JavaScript) describing the Coal Creek Motor Discovery Trail for providing a suggested tour route and information about the area.
This cemetery is smaller and more remote, but it is similar to the Leach Cemetery in the most significant details. A large number of miners were all killed in the accident on December 9, 1911 at the Cross Mountain mine, and many were buried in this cemetery.
The approximate location is shown in this OpenStreetMap.
The photo at left shows the traditional pick and shovel mining symbol on the base of the central monument. Unfortunately, it has been damaged.
The photo at right looks down the gravel road through the
cemetery.
Some unique headstones shaped like tree trunks are seen in this photo.
The base of the central monument is engraved with the names of the many miners who died in the tragic accident.
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| These marbles, the works of the dreamers and idealists of old, live on, leading and pointing to good. They are the works of visionaries and dreamers, but they are realizations of soul, the representations of the ideal. They are grand, beautiful, and true, and they speak with a voice that echoes through the ages. Governments have changed; empires have fallen; nations have passed away; but these mute marbles remain—the oracles of time, the perfection of art. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Statues of Rome” (1857-58), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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