This is a coal camp just beyond the town of Meadow Bridge, WV that was constructed by Bee Lick Knob Coal Company in 1917. It was an operation in the Pocahontas No. 6 coal seam, later owned and operated by various companies such as Republic Steel, Sparks Coal Co., and especially Standard Fire creek Coal Company. Mining continued into the 1950s. Later coal was trucked
to Beelick Knob from other coal mines and loaded on the train there. There was a post office from1926 until 1954.
This is how the Beelick Knob coal operation appeared in it's prime. (Photo by Red Ribble, courtesy of www.cirkut.org)
Today the tipple and company store are gone, but these company houses remain in various stages of alteration from their original appearance.
Another style of company houses in the Beelick Knob coal camp.
The Beelick Knob company store closed in 1958 (from "My Hometown - History of Meadow Bridge and Beelick Knob West Virginia" by Peggy Ann Houchins Day).