Coal Mining Towns In West Virginia

The town is the setting of the best selling memoir october sky by homer hickam and the movie. The map shows areas of active and historical coal mining in both underground and surface mines with separate colors for auger and highwall mining.

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Like most of west virginia the new river gorge area has a rich history of coal mining.

Coal mining towns in west virginia. Coalwood is an unincorporated community coal town in mcdowell county west virginia united states the coal mine in coalwood reached its peak in the 1960s and finally shut down production on october 1 1982. Pages in category coal towns in west virginia the following 200 pages are in this category out of approximately 512 total. Coal companies had to build towns and houses for their miners in some of the most isolated areas of the region.

As of the 1990 census the last time the town was counted separately the population was 900. Battle of blair mountain a series of clashes culminated in the battle of blair mountain in august and september of 1921. When the railroads arrived southern west virginia primarily was a mountain wilderness with a smattering of small towns such as beckley madison and aracoma later renamed logan.

Users can zoom in on mining areas and retrieve information for individual mines. The west virginia geological and economic survey provides an interactive map of underground and surface coal mining activity in west virginia. A haunting road trip through west virginia ghost towns to take if you dare.

More than 10 000 armed union miners from the northern coalfields of west virginia marched south to support unionizing efforts amid an anti union regime in logan county. This road trip might be your best chance to see the remains of several of those towns in just a short drive. In fact during the industrial period more than 50 coal towns sprung up there bringing thousands of people to the gorge.

This list may not reflect recent changes previous page. Since the mining industry has declined there are quite a few towns that have been abandoned and are returning to nature. West virginia has no shortage of ghost towns.

Those coal towns disappeared just as quickly as they appeared though leaving the ruins of the towns to be reclaimed by nature. I worked at prenter coal run by second mining peabody coal company retired from patriot coal after 39 years as a mechanic and preparation plant operator i worked with a lot of good men who now are gone but not forgotten i had to retire after 39 years if i could worked until i was 66i would. The miners were met with the west virginia state police and machine gun nests manned by mine guards.

Ever since i have lived with exception of 2yrs of my life i have lived worked or lived near coal towns.

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