Published by admin on Tue, 08/29/2023 - 12:24pm
Although most miners of early Braidwood continued mining until they died or were too injured to work, some of them made it up and out of the mine. Today we look at William Steen and Samuel Drew, both made a difference to their community.
Samuel Drew was the son of a mine operator in Staffordshire, England. He began working in the mines of England at the age of thirteen. When his father's mine was flooded out, they family moved to Braidwood for a new start. He and his father and brother were given a room to work together, and he continued mining for some years.