What was a mining town during the Victorian era has become ... Where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet within the ...

The point where I reached the mountains was about twenty-seven miles from Santa Fe, in a southwesterly direction. About midway of the journey are the ruins of a town of consider able extent.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest ...