# Coleanor, Alabama

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{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States}}
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'''Coleanor''', also known as '''Coal-Eleanor''', is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Bibb County](/source/Bibb_County%2C_Alabama), [Alabama](/source/Alabama), United States.

==History==
The mine at Coleanor was originally known as the Upper Thompson Mine.<ref>{{cite book |last=Armes |first=Ethel |date=1972 |title=The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama |location=[Birmingham](/source/Birmingham%2C_Alabama) |publisher=The Book-Keepers Press |pages=151 }}</ref> The Blocton-Cahaba Coal Company operated a coal mine at Coleanor.<ref name="Alabama1924">{{cite book|author=Geological Survey of Alabama|title=Bulletin - Geological Survey of Alabama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfJ4k2__jDgC&pg=PA48|year=1924|publisher=Geological Survey of Alabama|pages=48}}</ref> Combined with nearby [Piper](/source/Piper%2C_Alabama), the two towns had a combined population of nearly 2,500.<ref>{{cite web |title=Piper/Coleanor |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=83225 |website=The Historical Marker Database |publisher=HMDB.org |access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref> Coleanor was connected by rail to Piper and was located on the [Southern Railway](/source/Southern_Railway_(U.S.)).<ref name="Ellison1999">{{cite book|author=Rhoda C. Ellison|title=Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAe6BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA177|date=17 February 1999|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-0987-9|pages=177}}</ref> The Coleanor Mine was closed after World War II.

In February 1934, members of the [United Mine Workers](/source/United_Mine_Workers) called a strike at the Coleanor mine.<ref name="Day2013">{{cite book|author=James Sanders Day|title=Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SpsuWXE4Y5sC&pg=PR11|date=24 June 2013|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-1794-2|page=133}}</ref> [Alabama National Guard](/source/Alabama_National_Guard) troops were called in to Coleanor on February 25 to restore order.<ref name="Administration1936">{{cite book|author=United States. National Recovery Administration|title=Work Materials ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xanmAMVHQlsC&pg=PA185|year=1936|publisher=The Administration|pages=185}}</ref>

Twelve different miners died working in the mines of Coleanor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alabama Coal Mine Fatalities, 1898-1938 |url=http://bpldb.bplonline.org/db/formProc/coalmine?title=coalmine&lastname=&search_lastname_parameter=starts&firstname=&search_firstname_parameter=starts&year=&report=&mine=147&race=&cause=&occupation= |publisher=Birmingham Public Library |access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref>

A post office operated under the name Coleanor from 1901 to 1942.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Bibb | title=Bibb County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=9 March 2020}}</ref>

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