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The Buffalo Creek Disaster

Stories of Appalachia
Stories of Appalachia
Episode • Apr 22, 2023 • 14m
In February, 1972, a coal company muck dam along Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, collapsed after a winter of heavy snow and rain. The resulting flash flood of water and gob destroyed homes, businesses and took several lives in that Appalachian holler.

Today we tell that story.

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