Miner's Memorial Park

Miner's Memorial Park is located off of Route 78 in Morgan County, 9 miles from McConnelsville, 16 miles from Caldwell (Noble County).

• Miner's Memorial Park is dedicated to the miners was a part of the surface mining from 1969 to 1991.
• The Big Muskie bucket is the centerpiece of Miners' Memorial Park.
• The Big Muskie was the World’s Largest Dragline and one of the seven engineering wonders of the world! 
• It is said to be the largest dragline and machine designed that could walk across the earth.

• The giant bucket weighs 460,000 pounds empty and has the volume of a 12-car garage.
• Big Muskie was a coal mining Bucyrus-Erie dragline excavator owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company, weighing 13,500 short tons and standing nearly 22 stories tall.
• It operated in the U.S. state of Ohio from 1969 to 1991.

Address:  

4470 OH-78, McConnelsville, OH 43756