BEELICK KNOB

This is a coal camp just beyond the town of Meadow Bridge, WV. It was a coal operation in the Pocahontas No. 6 coal seam owned and operated by Standard Fire creek Coal Company. 74 men worked at Beelick Knob in 1923. Mining continued into the 1950s. Later coal was trucked to Beelick Knob from other coal mines and loaded on the train there.

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.

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