Manganese Mine

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Manganese Mine
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Photograph showing tracks leading from the manganese mine in Fort Valley to the place where the ore was processed.

This file appears in: Fort Valley Manganese Mines

Fort Valley Manganese Mines

By The Shenandoah Stories team
When Europe went to war in August of 1914 the residents of Fort Valley Virginia could have scarcely realized how important their small community would become to the US economy. During the late…