Fairbury Echoes Museum
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History Stories 

  1. Coal Mining
    1. Blade article on Dale Maley's book about Coal Mining in Fairbury.
    2. Debunking the Myth that Bat Masterson worked in a Fairbury Coal Mine.
    3. Coal mining was a dangerous occupation.
    4. The Sullivan family. Irish immigrants who came to Fairbury because of coal mining jobs.
    5. 1887 William T. Stackpole Blade article about coal mining.
    6. Coal mine tunnel map showing old tunnel map overlaid on modern Google map of Timber Ridge Subdivision.

 

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