Hardscrabble is a former settlement in
Coshocton County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Ohio
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.
Hardscrabble was a
coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal is formed when dea ...
mining site established in 1833, one of the first coal mines in Coshocton County. Further mines at Hardscrabble opened in 1868 and mining activity continued until about the early 1880's.
[ ] The site today is a semi-rural area on the eastern outskirts of
Coshocton.
References
Unincorporated communities in Coshocton County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
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