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WEST VIRGINIAN OF THE YEAR: Charles T. Jones; Coal miner, farmer, riverboat captain, Renaissance man
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December 26, 2004
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pjnyden@wvgazette.com Charles T. Charlie Jones, this years Sunday
Gazette-Mail West Virginian of the Year, grew up in the Southern
coalfields and on his familys Lundale Farm in Oak Hill, but found his
lifes passion along the banks of the Kanawha River. Today, Jones
still runs the familys business transporting coal, limestone,
chemicals, sand, gravel and other products on barges along the
Kanawha and Ohio rivers. Based in Port Amherst, just east of
Charleston, Amherst Industries has 35 boats on the water. He was
chosen as West Virginian of the Year because hes an outstanding civic
figure, and because he represents a special group as a homegrown
industrialist providing many Mountain State ...
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