----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Laube" <zurlauben@mindspring.com> To: "Shirley Braunbeck" <sbraunbeck@alltel.net>; <ohpERRY-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: Dixe Coal mines 1900 > Shirley - I am going to post this on the Perry County list and I hope some > real native will answer ---snip Well Shirley they answered - but I am not sure you have seen the answers - here is one for example from Ruth A: Dixie was a small village near where the Jackson,Pike,Monday Creek and Salt Lick townships meet. My husband used to purchase coal from the mine there when he was a young man. There is not much there now but it is shown on the county map which I have. You can probably get more info. from the Perry Co. Website. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > From: Shirley Braunbeck > To: Zurlauben@mindspring.com > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:48 PM > Subject: PERRY COUNTY Inquiry > > Dear Mr. Laube, > > I have read with interest many of your postings on Rootsweb, etc and I see > that in a '98 archives you spoke of the coal mines of Shawnee. My > mother-in-law, who is 92 yrs old, tells of living in Dixie, which was > somewhere around New Lexington and that her father worked in the coal mine. > She would "walk the tracks" to Shawnee to go to church. Since you are a > native, I was wondering what light you can shed on Dixie and the mining > industry in the early 1900's in that area. > > Thank you. > > Shirley Braunbeck >