The last two company houses at Gilmer, WV, domain of the Davis Colliery Co. Gilmer was the only coal camp to be located in Gilmer County. However, there is a large block of Pittsburgh coal that remains to be extracted in Gilmer County.
Abandoned coal mine at Adrian in Upshur County. Coal mining at Adrian dates back at least to the 1910's and the W.H. Green Coal Company.
Another view of the abandoned preparation plant and associated buildings at Adrian. The last operator of this facility was Glady Fork Mining.
A train idles at Burnvsille, WV, in December 2003, loaded with coal that possibly came from the Brooks Run Mine or Evergreen Mining.
CSX Railway keeps all of this specialized equipment at Burnsville to keep the coal flowing out of the Elkins Field.
One of the remaining company houses in Parcoal, WV, Webster County. Except for the window toward the rear, house seems mostly original. I'm not sure what company owned the mine and coal camp at Parcoal, but it was probably Pardee & Curtin Lumber Co.
Abandoned coal stockpile area and rail loadout on the edge of Norton, WV in Randolph County
A few of the coal camp houses that West Virginia Coal and Coke Company built at Coalton, WV. In addition to a coal mine the company also operated coke ovens at Coalton, of which the coal camp is only a part of this incorporated town.
West Virginia Coal and Coke also constructed the same style of house at another nearby coal camp named Norton.
This street in Norton is called Brick Row. A resident of the town told me that these were for the formen, and the one hired most recently lived in the lowest house.
This is the house that company would have provided for the typical coal miner to live in at Norton.
This was originally the bank for the coal camp, and is now a private residence. The company store used to be located next door to this but has been demolished.
This dynamite house is the last vestige of the Norton coal mine. The tipple and associated structures were demolished some time ago, and the slate dump was reclaimed as well.
Houses from Davis Colliery Company's Harding coal camp. The improvements to US Route 119 must have taken out the remaining coke ovens.
The tipple and coke ovens that were originally at Harding, WV (West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries)
One of the modern coal mining operations in the Elkins Coalfield is Brooks Run.