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 * ** COAL THROUGH THE AGES ** ||
 * __ Date __ || Event  ||
 * 300s || Ancient Chinese start mining coal ||
 * 700s || Native Americans start to use coal to bake their pottery ||
 * 1000s || Coal was China’s leading producer of energy ||
 * 1600s || Coal is found by the Europeans in the 1600s in West Virginia ||
 * 1701 || Coal was found in Virginia ||
 * 1800s || Coal was used to manufacture goods, power steamships and power railroad trains ||
 * Post Civil War || Coal was used to make iron, and steel ||
 * Late 1800s || Coal was used to create electricity ||
 * 1900s || Miners used picks, shovels, and wooden pit props to mine coal ||
 * Today || Coal provides one-fifth (20.9%) of America’s Energy By Joseph

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