Luciusboro

Our Background

In the extreme southeast of the Brush Creek field is the town of Luciusboro, where mine #1 opened in August of 1913 on the Henry Fritz, McFeaters, and Duncan farms. A smaller mine than Coy #1, Luciusboro produced 71,212 tons of coal in its first year. Luciusboro was planned as a duplicate of Waterman and eventually grew to a total of 51 single and 26 double houses, a community hall, a doctor's office, and a first aid house. The annual capacity of the mines at Luciusboro was estimated at 125,000 tons. But Luciusboro's founder, Lucius Waterman Robinson himself, while already famous for his ability to "get the coal out," was not generally well known for his graciousness or personal warmth.