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97K views · 1.3K reactions | Residents of Owens Valley began attacking the aqueduct drawing the area's water away to Los Angeles. The press started to call it the "Little Civil War." Watch FLOOD IN THE DESERT Tue May 3 at 9/8c on American Experience | PBS → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

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336K views · 6.1K reactions | This now abandoned mine was opened before the American Civil War. In 1863, production shifted to supply coal to the blast furnaces that were producing munitions for the confederacy. After the war, it took many years to rebuild the south’s infrastructure and industrial economy, so it sat abandoned. During the 1890s, it was reopened, and eventually shuttered in the early 1930s | Underground Birmingham | Facebook