Introduction
Unincorporated Company Town
United Mine Workers of America
The Buxton Mines
Coal for the Railroad
Monroe Mercantile Company
Independent-owned Businesses
The Buxton YMCA
The Buxton Wonders
Buxton's White Residents
Buxton Schools
Houses in Buxton
The George Neal Family
Rueben Gaines, Sr.
African American Professionals in Buxton
Beginning of Buxton's Decline
The End of Buxton
Archaeological Exploration in Buxton

 

 

While the majority of a mine is below ground, there were above ground structures. Headframes contained the equipment that brought miners and the ore to the surface. Tipples were large, rambling structures where coal was sorted. They were built around the headframes.