Coal Mountain Portrait
by David Holsinger
Concert Band - Sheet Music

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Ensembles
Concert Band
Genres
Classical
Composers
David Holsinger
Publishers
TRN Music Publisher
Formats
Score
Item Types
Physical
Levels
Grade 5
Usages
School and Community
Concert band - Grade 5.5

SKU: TU.FSCOA1

Composed by David Holsinger. Full score. Published by TRN Music Publisher (TU.FSCOA1).

COAL MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT is, to much extent, inspired by the history of Page, West Virginia.

Page is an unincorporated town in Fayette County, West Virginia. It was named for William Nelson Page (1854-1932), a civil engineer and industrialist who lived in nearby Ansted, where he managed Gauley Mountain Coal Company and many iron, coal, and railroad enterprises. William Page owned a coal and coking company at Page and was the first president of The Virginian Railway Company, now a part of Norfolk Southern.

In 1896, Page founded the Loup Creek and Deepwater Railway, a logging railroad connecting a sawmill at Robson with the Chesapeake and Ohio railway (C&O) at Deepwater on the Kanawha River. In 1898, it was rechartered as the Deepwater Railway, with plans to extend to nearby coal mines at Glen Jean. The town of Page became one of the earliest stations on the expanding Deepwater Railway. Around 1903, it also became the location of Page Coal and Coke Company.