BISHOP, WV

Evidently this was the last coal camp to be built in the Pocahontas Coalfield (in 1930). Bishop, in which half the camp is in McDowell County, WV and half is in Tazwell County, Va, was opened by the Pocahontas Fuel Corporation. They mined a 7-foot section of the Pocahontas 3 seam here and Pocahontas 5, too. Later Consol owned the mine.

It is obvious that Bishop was a major mining camp because all of the houses are this large, and the sidewalks are a nice touch, too.

The remains of the Bishop preparation plant. This was a Chance cone plant built by Fairmont Machinery in 1956.

Another view of the rusting Bishop coal plant.

Miscellaneous conveyors and ruins.

This has been identified as the slope portal to Bishop No. 36 of Jacobs Fork Mains.

This sign from the Bishop mine is on display at the Pocahontas Exhibition Mine.

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