Virginia Mines Hellraisers

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Comment by Renee Sparkman-Cain on July 28, 2009 at 9:53am

I lived in Va Mines during the Sixties. I still have family there. When did everyone else live there? Where? I lived on what's called today Coke Oven Road but it looked MUCH better--CLEANER--when I lived there.

Comment by Renee Sparkman-Cain on July 28, 2009 at 9:49am

She was PATIENCE personified! When I would miss Ms. Stoker's bus, I'd catch Ms. Rainey's.

Comment by Chuck McCombs on July 20, 2009 at 10:00pm

I rode Ms. Rainey's bus and always thought she was a good driver despite all the noise we made.

Comment by Renee Sparkman-Cain on July 20, 2009 at 7:09pm

Did anyone else ride Ms Stoker or Ms Rainey;s school busses? I road Ms Stoker's.

Comment by Chuck McCombs on July 20, 2009 at 2:11pm

Thought I'd better join da group to represent the McCombs clan...

Like Renee we were all over the old mines, swimining underwater in the flooded water treatment basement, jumping off the roof into the outside vat of the water treatment building, sledding down the slate dump, etc.

We expanded and used the Lick Creek swimming holes, usually joined by some of the Parks / Scoggins bunch. It was great playing football next to the old graveyard and roaming the dirt roads on bikes and horses. Hunting the hills and hollows with friends and all of our dogs beat playing inside, hands-down!

Comment by Ronnie lawson on April 16, 2009 at 5:58pm

all of you out there who know me no i belong here

Comment by Renee Sparkman-Cain on March 21, 2009 at 5:48pm

I am an old VM girl. I was raised by my grandparents on what is now called Coke Oven Rd.

I remember going to the old mines and roaming through the old builings, sliding down the slate dump, looking for fossils in the rock dump across from the old bath house, cleaning old brick with my grandpa to build flower beds and bar-b-que pits....and that just during the summer.

My grandpa was the water inspector there during the 60s after the mines closed. I remember when a storm would come up, he'd take us all the the old water treatment house for shelter. That's where we were in 1966 when that tornado came through and tore the camp up.

Remeber the blackberry patches and the wild plum trees...and the old beaver dam?

Comment by Brandon Meeks on March 16, 2009 at 12:05pm

Wat up fellow Virginia Mineians!
Has anybody heard of a 20 yr reunion for c/o 89?
Yall holla
Brandon

Comment by Brian Gilliland on March 13, 2009 at 8:53am

what if you just spent your weekends in virginia mines..lol

Comment by Dana Robinson Curtis on December 29, 2008 at 9:11pm

I was one!!!

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