 H. Brown, who also bought the coal from Miller. They leased the mine to D. Herron, John Peterson and D. Cain, who operated until the coal was exhausted in 1853. The area mined out amounted to 40 acres.  Publications - Page 186by Illinois State Historical Society - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Nehemiah Matson - Bureau County (Ill.) - 1872 - 404 pages
...early settlers of this county owe the preservation of their lives. CHAPTER II. AMERICAN FUR COMPANY. On the east side of the river, a short distance below the mouth of Bureau creek, was standing in the fall of 1821, a double log cabin, which belonged to the... | |
 | Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé - Illinois - 1874 - 978 pages
...to erect a fort in which he and his men might pass the winter without molestation. A site was chosen on the east side of the river, a short distance below...the different sides, and the whole was surrounded with a palisade 2r> feet in hight. The work was completed by erecting within the enclosure buildings... | |
 | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - Coal - 1884 - 316 pages
...area mined out amounted to 40 acres. 151. JOHN ROBISON MINE, (10{ miles south of Pittsburgh.) Located on the east side of the river, a short distance below the mouth of Turtle creek. Was opened in 1846 by John Robison. He operated to the river trade until the... | |
 | J. Sutton Wall - Coal mines and mining - 1884 - 322 pages
...area mined out amounted to 40 acres. 151. JOHN ROBISON MINE, ( IO; miles sooth of Pittsburgh.) Located on the east side of the river, a short distance below the mouth of Turtle creek. Was opened in 1846 by John Robison. He operated to the river trade until the... | |
 | Edward Field - Rhode Island - 1902 - 720 pages
...carried on his industry on the Taunton River, located at Puwtucket and began the building of ships on the east side of the river a short distance below the falls. He was the builder of the Providence, one of two frigates built in Providence in 1776, by order... | |
 | Alexander Gregg - Cheraw Indians - 1905 - 720 pages
...Charles-town, where he was residing as a merchant in 1766. A year or two after, he settled on the Pedee, on the east side of the river, a short distance below the State line. Mrs. Wise, who came with him, was a woman of marked traits. Their only child, a daughter,... | |
 | Charles Edward Brown - Archaeology - 1920 - 510 pages
...St. Louis "to get presents from the Spanish."30 During the Revolution the fort at St. Joseph river was on the east side of the river, a short distance below the site of South Bend, Indiana, and the Potawatomi village of the same name was located opposite the fort,... | |
 | Peter Peterson Cherry - Ohio - 1920 - 360 pages
...to the Cuyahoga Valley, a tract of land comprising some thirty or forty acres, lying in the valley on the east side of the river, a short distance below the center, was cleared of trees, A QUIET STRETCH ON THE CUYAHOGA and was under cultivation. It was an... | |
 | Richard G. Hardorff - History - 1999 - 178 pages
...this encounter took place, a group of Crow and Ree Indian Scouts had taken refuge in a grove of timber on the east side of the river, a short distance below the retreat ford. Among them was the Ree, Young Hawk, of whom Libby wrote: The Dakotas came closer, one... | |
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