MISC. GREENBRIER COALFIELD
A rare photo of Humoco, WV, one of two coal camps in Summers County. It was operated by Hump Mountain Smokeless Coal Co. during the 1920's.
Foundation ruins of the Humoco mine.
Clyde contributes this picture of the Left Fork Fuel tipple from the Greenbrier Coal Field. Clyde says that this tipple was in operaton during the 1950's.
What's left of the coal mining town named Bellwood in Fayette County. The operator was the Alaska Coal Co., mining the Fire Creek seam. Another source says the Bellwood No. 1, 2, and 3 mines were owned by the Dorkent Coal Co. and in the Pocahontas No. 3 vein.
A scene from the coal camp of Crichton (pronouced cry-ton). This mine here was opened in 1921 by the Johnstown Coal and Coke Co. Operations ceased in 1951. A few
people still call Crichton home, and the elementary school is still opened there, too.
As this photo of Marfrance illustrates, the coal operators in the Greenbrier field sometimes located their coal camps on the hilltop. Marfrance, founded in 1912, was so named
because the Margarette Coal Co. and Frances Coal Co. both had mines here.
Massey Energy's Green Valley mine was one of the last Greenbrier Coalfield mines to be open. Westmoreland Coal Co. originally built this prep plant and named it "Lady H."
Another coal company in the Greenbrier Field that operated into the 21st Century was Princess Polly Anna, shown here with a stacking conveyor in front of an old Peters Equipment modular plant.
Remnants of the foundations of the power house from
Sewell Valley Coal Company's Beurytown coal mine. Beurytown was a small coal camp and mine along Meadow Creek at the edge of Summers County.
Old coal mine portal into the Pocahontas No. 6 seam near Charmco.
Image courtesy of W. Caldwell
Circa 2007 Image courtesy National Park Service
Image courtesy of Clyde
Mar. 2002 image by author
Mar. 2002 image by author
Mar. 2001 image by author
Circa 2003 image by others
2000 image by PCC
Circa 2007 image courtesy National Park Service
WV AML Program image