WARRICK COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT) — There are many jobs and professions that helped shape the Tri-State, but there’s one that played a major role in not only the Tri-State’s history but the country’s history: coal mining.
“Southern Indiana was a downtown coal town, we got the coal here, and we mined it, it was the place to be,” says former coal miner A.J. Mason.
During its peak, Warrick County coal mining employed more than 14,000 people in southern Indiana in the 1950s…