In 1828, a West Chirton Hall belonged to Michael Robson (1783-1837), a coal baron.

The community was founded as a resort community serving coal barons and other members of the wealthy elite of nearby Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

It was here and in parts of the Hill Section that the mansions built by former coal barons still stand.

Johnson College was founded in 1912 as a trade school by Orlando S. Johnson, a wealthy coal baron.

Big Splash, or Hong Dong in Chinese, was bought by a coal baron from the north of China.

"First they've seen their land raped by the coal barons, and now they don't want to see it as a dumping ground for New York's sludge," she said.

"The power and light companies hated me," he said, "and the oil barons and the coal barons and the atomic energy trust."

Sure, the coal barons can't move the coal, but the oil barons have taken their prices so low, coal can't be mined and compete.

A coal baron with land in County Durham was visiting the Canadian city when he was told that coal had been discovered under his land.

So the meeting broke up and the "coal barons," as the newspapers dubbed the operators, quitted with evident satisfaction.