Matewan West Virginia: Massacre, Mine Wars, Hatfields & McCoys
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Matewan West Virginia is home to the Matewan Massacre, mine wars, the Hatfields and McCoys, and ATV trails! Mingo County was once known as Bloody Mingo due to the Appalachian labor struggles in the early 1900s, where coal miners seeking to unionize were at odds with coal company operatives and their hired guns. Watch and you'll even see bullets left in the brick walls from the massacre!
The Battle of Matewan isn't the only historical struggle that took place here. The Hatfields and McCoys would also cross the Tug Fork River here at Matewan during their historic family feud.
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Do one for Lashmeet West Virginia
I'm new to your channel so forgive me for suggesting Hinton, WV if you've already done a video on it.
@@nursehemp7280 great suggestion, planning to get out that way👍
I have a request, can you explore the tragic death of Sylvia likens? she was slaughtered back in I want to say in the 1960's.
@@nursehemp7280 just published the Hinton episode today, enjoy!
Thanks a lot from Germany, I‘ve been to Matewan as an exchange student for a year and graduated in '93. It was a trip down Memory lane to see the old Magnolia High School, the home of the Tigers, and the football field. The tigers were football state champions in their division back than….
I drove a delivery truck into Matewan from 1987 to 1992. Haven't been back since even though I live in McDowell County. I hardly recognize it! Thanks for a glance at the "new" Matewan.
Gonna go there in June 2024 and ride the motorcycle/atv trails that zigzag through the different towns in that beautiful part of the country. Cant hardly wait.Love the old school vibe.
Sounds great, have fun!
"Matewan" is a great movie by John Sayles and his book on making that film,
"Thinking in Pictures", is the best book about independent movie-making yet written.
Yes, and the best part was, the movie was filmed in Thurmond, WV.
Been watching history of West Virginia. This was interresting. Most my family ancestors were from Logan West Virginia and Mingo and Pike Kentukey; and other cities. Some spread out to Ohio.
My pawpaw Mounts was a coal miner. Many others farmers.
When I saw the movie about the massacre years ago, it really stuck with me. Hope to visit Mingo County someday. Thank you for this video.👍
My grandparents lived in Clay county, Kentucky most of their lives, but had family involved in that union battle.. I remember hearing my grandmother talking about it...
These are excellent. You do a great job of telling the story without talking too much; you let the pictures tell the story, too. Great job!
In 65 I was with friends and family so we were camping close to Beckley and went to an amphitheatre for a hatfield and mccoy theatre outdoors really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for the historical tour of these off the beaten path. I love the mountains and I love history
I’m so glad you’re doing this. I had no idea about a lot of the history in this area. I love your storytelling style. It’s mind blowing you can still see the bullet holes in that building!! Keep em’ coming! These are great!!!
Thanks! It's wild, I was able to touch the bullets left in those walls😳
I love the mountains, was there 1968. community named Dingess in Mingo county. good people. i fell in love with the mountains and left part of my heart there,
WOW!!! Crazy how much history comes from that small town in West Virginia! Loved this video, it turned out great!!
thanks! 😁
My hometown of Martin, KY was also a depot town. Such an rich history with much of it now gone. While I left there many years ago, I still follow its change.
A great video. This town and its people have really withstood many hardships. The people in these neck of the woods really have a resilience with all they have suffered and continue to suffer. I love to look at old towns and hear their histoy. Thanks for sharing their story.
Absolutely love seeing this. Took a trip to west Virginia few years back. Saw actual working coal mine up mountain. Loved the trains.
Been here many times from Williamson while riding the trails. Love the locals and the trail system, some of the nicest folks you will ever meet.........This whole area is steeped in history and interesting places from the past.
Once again, a fabulous video! Anywhere you want to go, we will watch.☺. Thank you again. God bless you and your family 🙏❤
Thanks so much y'all! 😊
Your videos are the best, thanks. I want to see them all & future ones !
I love these videos and One day you are going to “Blow Up” meaning have at least 50 million subs…This is what our world needs now..Thank you.
I'd love to go there in the Autumn. Wish your tour was longer.
I'm glad I found your channel. My mom's side of the family is from Covel and Princeton. They were all coal miners and unfortunately they all died young because of black lung. Keep up the great videos. Looking forward to the next one.
As usual, great footage and edifying commentary. This entire area, to the extent that I have seen it in these videos, is just lovely as far as the natural settings are concerned!
If you do get up Cabin Creek all the way up just past the site of Kayford, which is now totally gone, check out the Stanley Heirs Park and their stand against Mountain Top Removal
I appreciate the videos you take and you do a great job with the commentary. I enjoy seeing these towns on video, but with no disrespect I'm glad I didn't grow up in one of them. They just seem so poor with so few jobs there these days. You're doing a great job telling the history of these places.
Nice to see your videos getting the appreciation they deserve!
Thanks y'all! 👊
So grateful for the wonderful videos and the history you post. It's a pleasure to journey with you on these trips through time. Thanks again
Appreciate that, glad you're enjoying them!!
Thank you for the video. I am always interested in the history and was born in Buchanan county, Virginia which isn't too far from Mingo county, WV. My grandpaw also worked there in the coal mines of Mingo county about the time this all happened. I just subscribed to your channel and wish you all the luck in your videos. Thanks again for the history.
Matewan Pride!!! LOVE the videos ! Thank you for all the wonderful videos brought back some great memories
Old matewan was a lot different than the matewan of today! The matewan of today is more or less just a big museum! Used to be a lively little town. When going into town on the West Virginia side you use to have to drive under a railroad bridge, all gone now and most of the town with it! I loved the old days.
Seems to be an all too common theme unfortunately.
Definitely on my list of towns in our beautiful state i wanna visit. Just found your channel tonight and now i'm binge watching. Great stuff!
Thanks! Definitely a spot to explore!!
Sure appreciate your information and presentation 👍 glad I found you, watching from Ohio Smitty out 👋👋👋
Another superior chronicle of some southern WV lore and its often bloody past. I have some tidbits concerning the Baldwin detective agency you might find interesting sometimes…
absolutely would love to hear!
my only complaint......make these longer!!!!! i need more!!!!....lol thanks for the upload just subbed
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I love your WV videos! I want to move there
I watched one of your videos which I found and now I am intrigued with your series. I started watching a lot more. Good luck with these.
So glad you found it & are enjoying it!
A VERY Interesting video !!!
Thanks !!!
You're welcome!
Hey there, MR. Like the vid. I used to live in NOVA, inside the beltway, and would go to the eastern panhandle of WV to a horse racing track in Charles Town. Loved it out there. Wish I could live there. Would also go to the northern panhandle, to cumberland, for another track when I traveled back and forth from IN to see my family. Beautiful state, as well as VA, and KY.
Nice to see video of my home county. A little lacking in info. But love seeing pics of my old stomping grounds
Oh there's SO MUCH more about Mingo County to cover!
Very well done. Keep at it….
Enjoy your vidoes
Thanks!
Thanks so much for your support! It was filtered out and I couldn't see until now, but I wanted you to know I'm very grateful for it!!
Love these videos very interesting and beautiful I love them very much
So glad to hear that!
My dad told me that for several years after the mine wars if you were in Mingo County and named Baldwin you better not let anybody know!
If you get south of Charleston take a drive up Cabin Creek. My Daddy was born and raised at Kayford he is now 90 and lives in England which is were my mother was from. I shared your videos with him and we both enjoy them very much. Garland Stamper
Love the history of the people and way of life
BTW if you are driving out of WV into Ky at Matewan you might want a different road if driving a motor home or pulling a trailer as the roads are extremely narrow with no shoulders. Ok in a car however. Been there.
This is my hometown and where I've lived most of my life. Sadly, the locals have pretty much been forgotten about and all the town cares about is the tourists that come through. It's not the same anymore and none of the money goes back into the community. Drugs have overrun it.
A small town that carried a BIG stick, when it came to fighting for what they believed in. Thank God for the union! Awesome short video! (Glen). WV.
thanks Glen appreciate you watching!
From summers county and ran that territory delivering railroaders to there trains and my dad had a cousin Jimmy Costa that was actually in the movie buitiful land and some of the nicest poeple as long as ur nice to them and some great food they know how to cook mtn soul food I was raised on it
Please take a ride thru Williamson. My father and I were born there and haven’t been back for a long time.
I think I'll sub to watch more up dated Mountain videos in West Virgina and Kentucky
I lived in Sprigg, attended Magnolia High in Matewan, went into the Army July 1955.... The downtown area looks about the same, but the rest is pretty much unrecognizable, even the train station have been relocated. Even so, it's still the town where I went to the movies and encountered my childhood buddies and friends... The flood wall was constructed after the 1977 floods. A wall was also constructed around Williamson.... My mother's house, in Sprigg, was washed away and destroyed... along with many others.
Hey man this is James Johnson out of Indiana my dad lived in sprig when he was a boy Thomas Johnson his dad name was Orville Johnson and my other grandpa was named Ted Norman and Betsy Norman
I used to ride side besides with those snake down there one of my buddies
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Hi James.... I knew both your Dad (we called him Tommy) and Granddad Orville. They lived on the hillside just above Willards' beer-garden there in Sprigg.
My Hometown...
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My dad is from matewan West Virginia hey grew up with a Hatfield McCoys his last name was Ratliff
Anyone watching this should look for the 2 disc d.v.d. series staring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, titled Hatfields and McCoys. I have the set, it's excellent. God bless brother!
Interesting video. I work for Coca-Cola and have to deliver to the Giovanni's and Dollar General in that area every Wednesday. Always have wondered what that side of Matewan looks like. Can't exactly get in there with a semi lol.
No you can't, but if you're ever in the area not in a semi definitely take some time to look around 👍
Like to see back roads (county leading into black diamond Virginia Then the history along the way of those counties and history of black diamond Virginia.I believe the road once was coal mining road between Kentucky and Virginia.
my mom and my dad's Lil sisters and brother went to school at Matawan school.
Have you done a video going thru Ikes Fork WVa yet?
Not yet, but possibly?
i love the music
Great video & history..... BUT 2:40 Every one of those 4 bullets just happened to all land perfectly in mortar joints???
The memories……..
I just had to watch this video again. It does have alot of fascinating but sad history. It looks like a pretty town. Good to hear they are thriving somewhat through their atv tourism.
I've only watched a couple episodes of the Appalachia series and am really enjoying them. One observation/opinion though. When you show us things, your camera angles are often such that we can't get a feel for what the building/or site really looks like. Either the angles are too sharp, or the shots are too close up, making it hard to see. For example, in this video, the school was shot from far away and at an angle that you can't really see what the building looks like. Just my two cents. Great videos though!
Sometimes you've got the shot, sometimes you don't. Thanks for the feedback, and for watching!
There is good a bad things that have happened throughout time.
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Good video. Sorry to see such a lawless city. Unless they have laws allowing atv and UTV they should be arrested and vehicle impounded.
Not lawless, that's part of local ATV tourism. Thx for watching!
Googled up West Virginia colleges and they actually have 44 colleges.
The place where the united mine workers started and the place where the biggest non-union coal company started A.T. Massey aka Don Blankenship
Cool little town. There's an imaginary line in the town surrounding the church. You can't have alcohol within 300ft so you can't build a bar inside that line. Kinda dumb. That town could boom because of the trail system but my guess is that local Gov doesn't have the entrepreneurial foresight to make such decisions.
Does anyone remember "HEY WONDER WOMAN" graffiti leaving town?
I guess living here nothing seems special to me after seeing it for years haha.
I think that's probably how a lot of people feel about where they live.
They have better roads than Charleston, the State capitol city.
Dated a girl from Mingo Co WV back in the 90’s , pretty girl but crazy as a gut shot cat
This is where the term redneck came from......
Do you know why?
How do they treat POC?
Hill Rats left in charge.
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Hidenwood drivers
Badass sir thank you.
You're welcome!