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Fork Mountain, Tennessee, is a former
coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
camp, located on Tennessee State Route 116 and the New River, at the Morgan County- Anderson County line. Petros is 4.2 miles to the south.
Frozen Head State Park Frozen Head State Park and Natural Area is a state park in Morgan County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The park, situated in the Crab Orchard Mountains between the city of Wartburg and the community of Petros, contains some of ...
is nearby with the park boundary including part of the Morgan County portion of the old town. The town was the site of at least six underground mines, a school, a railroad siding, and a sizable population in the early 1950s, but by 1980 these had all been dismantled as were most of the homes in the town. Fork Mountain was served by the Devonia
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, which was established in 1920 and closed in 1975.Frazier, D.R. (1984) ''Tennessee Post Offices and Postmaster Appointments 1789-1984'', Dover, Tennessee: self-published. Fork Mountain is also the birthplace of
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Bill Harris.


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