Briceville, Tennessee

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Briceville is an unincorporated town in Anderson County, Tennessee. It is included in the "Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area".

The town's economy was historically based on coal mining, and the town was the site of two famous incidents, the Coal Creek War which grew out of a lockout of coal miners in 1891, and the Fraterville Mine Disaster of 1902.

[edit] Further reading

Tennessee's Coal Creek War: Another Fight for Freedom, Chris Cawood, ISBN 0-9642231-0-4

[edit] External link

  • Coal Creek Watershed Foundation has extensive historical articles the Coal Creek War and Fraterville Mine Disaster, and current environmental and educational initiatives in Briceville
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