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Hallidayboro Remnant: A Century of Black Mining Heritage
The article traces Hallidayboro in Jackson County near Elkville, highlighting a white centennial church and a once-thriving black community tied to prewar settlement, segregated mines, and key families. It notes unions, major mines like Majestic in Du Quoin, Taylor 5 at Freeman Spur, and O Gara mines, with residents fleeing in postwar recessions to Chicago, Detroit, and Racine as mines closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County
Elkville
Hallidayboro
Hallidayboro Road
U.S. 51
Leon Kelly
du Quoin
Charles Gude
Gude
Williams Brothers
Southern
Illinois
W.P. Halliday
George Pullman
Cairo
Illinois Central Railroad
Ward
Black Hallidayboro
Jasper
Madison
Zeigler
Peabody Majestic
Old du Quoin
Rev. Kelly
Walter Wallis
Peabody
Majestic
Saline County
Taylor
Freeman Spur
Dillardtown
Freeman
Freeman Patch
Taylor 5
Bernice Nickins
Ernie
Donnie
Leola Crawford
Pistol
Nickins
Crawford
Willie Pistol Evans
Chicago
Detroit
Racine
Wisc
Nash Automobile Works
Nash
Harrisburg
Witherspoon
Muddy
Ledford
Two Patch
Three Patch
O’gara
North Africa
Italy
Blue Bird
Progressive Miners Union
Peabody Eagle Valley