Monongah

Monongah is a small town of less than a thousand, with a peak population of over 2,000 in 1910, that drew in hundreds of immigrants, most notably Italians, to work in the many area mines. Monongah is infamous for the Monongah Mining Disaster of 1907, which claimed the lives of 362 miners, of which 171 were Italian. The town was gifted a memorial bell from the Italian region of Molise in remembrance of the lives lost.