page_title: Black Heath
hierarchical_section_title: Black Heath
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Black Heath taken before 1915, perhaps in the late 1800s or early 1900s by Robert A. Lancaster Jr. The house was built in the late 1790s or 1800s by Harry Heth, a prominent coal businessman. Collapsed around the 1920s as a result of coal mines underneath the house and subsequently demolished. The site is just northeast of modern day Midlothian, Virginia
context_page_description: Black Heath was a house and coal mine located along the Old Buckingham Road in the present Midlothian area of Chesterfield County, Virginia. The Black Heath coal mining enterprises were operated by the Heth family between 1785 and 1844, when the mine closed following a fatal explosion.
context_section_description: Black Heath was a house and coal mine located along the Old Buckingham Road in the present Midlothian area of Chesterfield County, Virginia. The Black Heath coal mining enterprises were operated by the Heth family between 1785 and 1844, when the mine closed following a fatal explosion.
caption: Black Heath house in disrepair in the late 1800s or early 1900s
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