Half Arabian Horses for Sale near Virden, IL

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Half Arabian Mare
Lena is a nine yr old bay roan half arab. she is AHA registered. for an in..
Rochester, Illinois
Bay Roan
Half Arabian
Mare
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Rochester, IL
IL
$5,000
Half Arabian Mare
Pepper is an beautiful 5 year old dapple grey Half - Arabian mare. She sta..
Cantrall, Illinois
Gray
Half Arabian
Mare
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Cantrall, IL
IL
$900
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About Virden, IL

Virden sits atop a large seam of coal. After the 1850s, when the Chicago and Alton railroad was completed, it became possible to mine Virden coal and ship it long distances for a profit. Throughout the second half of the 1800s, Virden prospered and grew as a coal-mining town. A bitter coal strike broke out in 1898. The Chicago-Virden Coal Company, fearing loss of key business in Chicago, refused to allow its Virden mines to be unionized, nor would it pay the nonunionized miners union-scale wages.