Beaver Hill Mine

The panel's Black miners came in winter. Recruited from the West Virginia coal fields on promises the company did not keep, many arrived with their families in late December 1894, and Coos County residents helped some of them get back east. Others stayed, or came and went from the collieries in Washington, and for a few years in the mid-1890s Beaver Hill had more than a hundred Black residents, when all of Oregon had about eleven hundred. The board, dedicated in June 2022 with Oregon Black Pioneers, overlooks a mine of which almost nothing is left.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shore Acres State Park — 9.5 mi
  A timber family's clifftop estate whose mansion burned three months after its mistress died, whose larger replacement the state could not keep, and whose gardens it did.
• Bandon — 10 mi
  A town at the mouth of the Coquille built near the site of an 1854 massacre, named for a town in Ireland, and burned in 1936 by the Irish gorse its founder planted.

More markers nearby

• Spruce Soldiers — 4.1 mi
• Southern Oregon Coast Region — 11 mi
• The Hollering Place — 12 mi
• Coos Bay - Explore More — 12 mi