Article: Industrial archaeology: Henry Ford's mark on the gorge will be preserved

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NUTTALLBURG - In 1817, John Nuttall was born in England, and by age 11, he was working in a coal mine. Nuttall's father died when Nuttall was only 3. The family struggled with poverty, but he promised himself he would someday seek his fortune in America.

From England, he arrived in Pennsylvania with his family. But on his first trip to Fayette County, W.Va., he stared into a tavern fire at what he realized was a high grade of coal. When he asked about the coal, he learned that it was from a four-foot-thick coal seam that ran through the mountains where a new railroad line would soon be built.

Nuttall started buying up land as fast as possible for $1 an acre. His ...

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