A rare photo of Humoco, WV, the only coal camp in Summers County. It was operated by Hump Mountain Smokeless Coal Co. during the 1920s. (Photo courtesy of W. Caldwell)
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 1950s.
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 1925 view of the Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Company store at Bellburn, a mine and coal camp founded in 1918 by John BELL and H.H. BlackBURN. This store is gone now, but a few of the coal camp houses remain. (Photo courtesy of W. Caldwell)
The preparation plant and loadout at Bellburn date from recent times when A.T. Massey operated a mine here as White Buck Coal Co.
Another view of the coal processing facility at Bellburn. Note the steel stacking tube on the left. This is now demolished.
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. Many 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 often 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 is one of the few remaining coal operations in the Greenbrier Coalfield. Westmoreland Coal Co. originally built this prep plant and named it "Lady H."
Another contemporary coal company in the Greenbrier field is Princess Polly Anna, shown here with a stacking conveyor in front of an old Peters Equipment modular plant.
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