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Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...
Pitts outlines the next steps to her guides from Historic Cannelton, Inc. "It needs a roof, and you'll have to repair and remove those later excretions," she says, referring to an unsightly brick addition. "You have to shake the tree a bit. You just have to get as tenacious as the devil and generate publicity that this isn't a dead whale, that it's a useful community building...
...near Evansville to another at Terre Haute, and 250 more to perform similar duty along an intentionally undisclosed coal route. Other states in the region assigned their police forces to protect coal shipments. Moreover, the Coast Guard patrolled a 42-mile "safety zone" along the Ohio River from the Cannelton Locks to Newburgh, Ind., where much of the nonunion coal was barged...
...Cannelton City Schools...
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