page_title: Appalachian Plateau
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Appalachian Plateau / History
caption_attribution_description: Child coal miners - drivers and mules, Gary, W. Va., mine.
context_page_description: The Appalachian Plateau is a series of rugged dissected plateaus located on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Mountains are a mountain range that run down the East Coast of the United States.
  The Appalachian Plateau is the northwestern part of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New York to Alabama. The plateau is a second level United States physiographic region, covering parts of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.
caption: Child coal miners in Gary, West Virginia, 1908, minding the mules
exif: {"Image DocumentName": "cph/3a21700u.tif", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "1200", "Image YResolution": "1200", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "1998:08:17 21:19:15", "Image Artist": "Library of Congress", "Image ExifOffset": "183"}