Endurance Riding Horses for Sale near Albia, IA

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Arabian Mare
Never Too Cute (AHA #550588) (Never Again (Fire Chief ) X Hal OfA Nite (Hal..
Ottumwa, Iowa
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Arabian
Mare
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Ottumwa, IA
IA
$2,500
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About Albia, IA

Albia was incorporated as a town in 1856. On Feb. 14, 1893, there was a coal mine explosion in Chicago and Iowa mine, about 2.5 miles west of Albia. This room and pillar mine opened around 1877, and by the time of the explosion, mining extended more than 1,000 yards from the hoisting shaft and the mine employed 60 miners and 20 other men. One miner was killed outright and seven died later of their injuries, after a "shot" (gunpowder charge used to bring down the coal) ignited a dust explosion in the mine.