Tag: Hawks Nest Disaster

• Final rest for forgotten victims of industrial tragedy

  This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — History doesn’t have much to say about Roosevelt Singleton. We do not know where he was born or where he lived before moving to Gauley Bridge to work in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. We do not know […]

  zackharold

  September 23, 2014

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