J. Carson Adkerson Going Down the Shaft

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A picture of mine worker J. Carson Adkerson, the mine manager, going down the mine shaft at the Fort Valley manganese mines.

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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…