Ghosts of Beaver Hill: The Black Miners of Oregon’s Coal Coast

Presented by Zachary Stocks of Oregon Black Pioneers

In the 1890s, coal was king in Coos County, and Beaver Hill was the most productive mine of all. Today Beaver Hill is a ghost town, but new discoveries about its diverse workforce –which included perhaps 100 Black miners– are rewriting the history of early Oregon’s rural demographics and communities.

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