City of Black Diamond King County, Washington

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  • Feature Type: Incorporated

 

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City of Black Diamond Official
Black Diamond Official

 

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Black Diamond mining the memories by Diane Olson, Cory Olson, Black Diamond Historical Society

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Published by Diane Olson, Cory Olson, and the Black Diamond Historical Society, Black Diamond: Mining the Memories chronicles the rich, coal-fuelled history of a historic Washington company town situated in the shadow of the Cascade foothills. The book draws on extensive archival photographs, oral histories, and company records to detail the dangerous underground labor, multi-ethnic immigrant communities, and daily hardships of families who worked the rich seams for the Pacific Coast Company. Through these intimate vignettes, the text preserves the vanishing social fabric of a bustling industrial hub that once supplied coal across the entire Puget Sound. A keen insight drawn from the work is how company-owned mining towns functioned as isolated, corporate-feudal microcosms; by controlling everything from housing to currency, the coal company engineered a fragile social stability that ultimately fractured the moment laborers sought independent political and economic autonomy.

xvi, 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm

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History · 1st Edition · Black Diamond Historical Society, Black Diamond, WA, 2003
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