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Senator Cory Booker and Representative Mark Smith
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Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Mark Smith Give Kudos to Author Rachelle Chase

“Hi! This is United States Senator Cory Booker with one of the great authors I know in my life, Ms. Chase, because she’s writing books about my family’s history. Not my particular family, but about Buxton, a town here in Iowa that greeted my family from poverty from Alabama that gave us promise and possibility.” […]

on February 12, 2019March 25, 2019 by Rachelle Chase
Lost Buxton and Rachelle Chase
Buxton / The Writing Life

13 Amazing Months for LOST BUXTON and Rachelle Chase

Buxton, Iowa—a 1900s coal mining town of 5,000 in which blacks and whites lived and worked side by side and blacks received equal pay and thrived—is an amazing story of inclusion and equality. I’m doing my part to make sure it is not forgotten. A HUGE “thank you” to everyone I have — and have […]

on April 3, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
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The Inspiration Behind ‘Lost Buxton’

My first glimpse of what remained of Buxton, Iowa came in 2008. Standing in the middle of farmland, gazing at the crumbling ruins of a stone warehouse, I closed my eyes and tried to picture the amazing town that once was – a thriving coal mining town established in 1900 that was integrated, its 5,000 […]

on March 13, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
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Buxton, Iowa: A Coal Mining Town Built On Inclusion And Equality

In 1900, Consolidation Coal Company established one of the most unique towns in Iowa: Buxton. Spanning 8,600 acres in Monroe County and 1,600 acres in Mahaska County, along with a population that grew to 5,000, Buxton became the largest unincorporated town in Iowa.

on February 3, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
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Story of Buxton – From Muchakinock to Today

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa
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A Pictorial History of Buxton

Lost Buxton
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About Buxton, Iowa

In 1900, at a time when Jim Crow laws, segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan kept blacks and whites separated, residents in Buxton, Iowa—a thriving coal mining town of 5,000 residents established by Consolidation Coal Company—lived, worked, and went to school side by side. African Americans—miners, teachers, business owners, doctors, lawyers, and more—made up more than half of the population for the first 10 years and remained the largest ethnic group until 1914. By 1922, Buxton was a ghost town.

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About Rachelle Chase

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Rachelle Chase is a published author and senior business analyst whose latest passion is Buxton, Iowa.
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