A few Categorized Links

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Mining & Miners

Life in the Mines (http://www.iarelative.com/mines.htm)
Links to various historic mining resources.

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Fact Sheet 95-8 (http://www.msha.gov/MSHAINFO/FactSheets/MSHAFCT8.HTM) - Historical Data on Mine Disasters in the United States

The Baddesley / Baxterley Pit Explosion 1882 (http://www.hometown.aol.co.uk/pitexplosion/)
A history of the Baddesley / Baxterley pit explosion in 1882 in Warwickshire England. Details of the men involved and their families, including a list of those killed and those who won Albert Medals for bravery.

Bituminous Coal Mines of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index1.html)- Index
Index to the coal mines and coal companies that mined the bituminous coal seams of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Coal Camp Memories of Helen, WV ~ Helen, West Virginia (http://www.geocities.com/wvcoalcamp/)
Fascinating rare video footage filmed in the late 1930s and early 1940s of the coal camp at Helen, West Virginia. Segments include coal camp baseball, football, town people, marching bands, etc.

Mining in Wyoming (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wymining/)
History of mining in Wyoming.


Migration Routes, Roads & Trails

Early American Trails and Roads (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/trails.html)
Descriptions of 18 of the major early roads: The Boston Post Road; Braddock's Road; The California Trail; The Fall Line Road; The Federal Road; The Great Wagon Road; The King's Highway; The Mohawk (Iroquois) Trail; The Mormon Trail; The Natchez Trace; The National Road; The Oregon Trail; The Pennsylvania Road; The Santa Fe Trail; The Trail of Tears; The Upper Road; The Wilderness Road; Zane's Trace.

MigrationTrails.com (http://www.migrationtrails.com/)
"Who Traveled the Trails?" and a migration trail map. Awesome maps.

Roots & Routes (http://www.rootsandroutes.net/)
A heritage travel and public education website, including migration maps.

Trails West (http://www.tngenweb.org/tnletters/usa-west.htm)
Map of early western migration trails and descriptions.

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html)
Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

The Convict Trail (http://www.convicttrail.org/) ~ Australia

Migration Routes From Pennsylvania To Virginia (http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/genes/migrate.htm)

Migration Trails In Early Pennsylvania (http://www.mcn.org/2/noel/Westmoreland/MigrationTrails.htm)
Includes color coded map.

Wyoming Western Trails Digitization Project (http://will.state.wy.us/trails/exhibits/)
Oregon, California, Mormon and other overland trails through southeast Wyoming. Includes digitized diaires, photographs, and articles.


Medical & Medicine

Colonial Diseases & Cures (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/disease.html)

Old Disease Names & Their Modern Definitions (http://www3.nb.sympatico.ca/pebbles2/tools.html#disease)

Old Diseases & Their Modern Definitions (http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/old_diseases.html)

Old Medical Terminology (http://members.aol.com/AdamCo9991/medicalterminolgy.html)

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine (http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/index.html)
Searchable database of home made treatments for a variety of ailments.

1901 Census - Institutions (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jeffery.knaggs/Instuts.html)
Index to Institutions in the 1901 census of England & Wales.

Central State Hospital, Indiana (Historic Asylums) (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~asylums/central_in/index.html)

Ellis Island: Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911 (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quarantine/)
Online searchable database and list of those who died in Quarantine from November 1909 through June 1911 in New York City while en route to Ellis Island.

Index to the Admission Books of the Geelong Infirmary and Benevolent Asylum (http://www.fredwalter.com/infirmary/) ~ Victoria, Australia
Online index from 1861 to 1923 containing 12,538 entries.

Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920 (http://mdhistoryonline.net/mdmedicine/cfm/index.cfm)
An electronic archive from the Maryland State Archives

Pioneer Nurses of West Virginia (http://www.lindapages.com/nurses/nurses.htm)
A website to honor the Pioneer Nurses of W.Va. from Civil War through 1935, as well as the W. Va. nurses who served in wars, through the Korean War.

Cholera in the 19th Century ~ Scotland (http://sites.scran.ac.uk/lamb/cholera.htm)
Scanned examples of original documents from the Lamb Collection of the Dundee Library

Epidemics in US 1628-1918 (http://bjhughes.org/epidemic.html)

OntarioGenWeb - Epidemics (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canon/research-topic-deaths-epidemics.html)
Historic epidemics in the province of Ontario.

Plagues by state, city, date (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3959/Plagstate.htm)

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Canals, Rivers & Waterways

A mishmash of various links related to canals, rivers and waterways I've found.

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Steamboats.org (http://steamboats.org/)
Photos, links and other resources for paddlewheel riverboats. Big and eclectic collection of stuff -- they even have a page of steamboat webcams

Riverboat Dave's Paddelwheel Site (http://www.riverboatdaves.com/) - This web site is devoted, primarilly, to the midwestern paddlewheelers, the riverboats of the Mississippi and Missouri and Ohio Rivers. Large collection of links, including excerpts from various documents and lists of boat names and captain names.

Steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay (http://www.steamboatexplorer.org/) - Information about steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay during the steamboat era (1816-1959). Videos including one on the operation of a walking beam steam engine as well as oral history interviews with folks that lived during the latter part of the steamboat era.

History of steamboats in pictures from 1645 til 1809 (http://www.klaus-kramer.de/Schiff/Dampf/DampfHi1/DaHi1top.html)
German website with pictures about the invention of steamboats from 1645 til 1809. Included are pictures of the replica of the Claremont.

American RIVERS and WATERWAYS...Pathways for Migration, Commerce, Entertainment (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/rivers.html)

Murphy Library University of Wisconsin La Crosse
Large collection of photographs of inland steamboats.

Canals & Waterways: Roots & Routes ~ U.K. (http://www.bath4u.com/kennet_and_avon/bath4u_KandA_Roots.htm)

George's: Canal Boating in the U.K. and Europe (http://www.canals.com/)
Links and information for every topic related to canals. Of particular interest are the Museums and History sections on the Internet Resources page.

Ohio's Historic Canals (http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~lstevens/canal/)

Inland Waterways of England and Wales : Their History in Maps (http://www.mike-stevens.co.uk/maps/index.htm)
Maps from 1750 to 1950.

Tim's Waterways Index (http://www.timlewis.org.uk/Cindex.html) - MASSIVE collection of links.

Jim Shead's Waterways Information (http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/index.php) - An encyclopedia of the canals and rivers of England and Wales, including historical data

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Newspapers

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia (http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/)
Digital collection of advertisements for runaway slaves, captured slaves & servants in 18th- & 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Over 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants from newspapers in Virginia & Maryland from 1736-1803. Keyword searchable database.

NewspaperArchive.com (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/)
Hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages from 1874 to current - in a full-text searchable image database.

The Finnish Historical Newspaper Library 1771-1890 (http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti/secure/main.html)
Helsinki University Library digitizes all newspapers published in Finland 1771-1890. In 2007 the Newspaper Library will contain 165 titles and approximately 900 000 pages.

Kosciusko County Indiana Historic Newspaper Articles (http://yesteryear.clunette.com/index.html)
Historical articles from Kosciusko County Indiana newspapers & a civil war journal.

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html)
Collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers

The Stars and Stripes - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html)
Online scanned images.

Titanic Newpaper Articles Archive (http://www.titanicarchive.com/Home.aspx)
Search newspaper articles about Titanic in more than 15,000 historical newspaper pages.

U.S. News Archives on the Web (http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html)

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Prisons, Prisoners & Outlaws

Ireland-Australia transportation database (1791–1853) (http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy/transportation.html)
Convicts from Ireland to Australia

AlcatrazHistory.com (http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/)
Designed to help introduce us to the rich history of Alcatraz during the penitentiary years, and many of the inmates who called "the Rock" home.

Alcatraz Inmate Lists (http://www.notfrisco2.com/alcatraz/inmates/index.html)
A database with names and crimes of prisoners who were on Alcatraz Island between 1933 and 1963.

Before the Needles (http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm)
A detailed state by state listing of 14,490 executions that occurred under civil authority in the United States or within territory that later became the United States. From George Kendal being shot for espionage in Virginia (1608) until Gary Gilmore met his maker for murder in Utah (1977), it includes (when known) the convict's name, age, race, sex, occupation, crime, date of execution, method of execution and whether it was a single or multiple execution.

Crime & Punishment in the 19th Century ~ Scotland (http://sites.scran.ac.uk/lamb/crime.htm)
Scanned examples of original documents from the Lamb Collection of the Dundee Library.

Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920 (http://209.82.14.226/history/internment/)

Libby Prison ~ Richmond, Virginia (http://www.mdgorman.com/Prisons/Libby/libby_prison.htm)
Names of soldiers who escaped, died or were admitted to the prison, both Union and Confederate.

Beej's Pirate Image Archive (http://beej.us/pirates/)

Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/)
Searchable online database of 22,000 trials, from December 1714 to December 1759. Searchable by name, place, crime, verdict, punishment, date & more.

The 48th Ohio at Camp Ford (http://www.48ovvi.org/oh48cf.html)
History of Camp Ford, the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi.

Brothers Bound (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~south1/bound.htm)
A source page for information on the Civil War era prisoner of war experience - links to histories, biographies, rosters, and primary documents.

OK Lawmen & Outlaws (http://marti.rootsweb.ancestry.com/law/law.htm)
Lawmen and outlaws from Oklahoma Territory, Indian Territory or the State of Oklahoma.

U.S. Marshals, Arizona Territory (http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/armars.html)
U. S. Marshals and Deputy Marshals sworn in 1864 - 1912.