GLEN ROGERS

This was a BIG coal camp opened in 1918 by the Raleigh-Wyoming Mining Company. For a time it was the biggest coal producer on the Virginian railroad. The mine closed and the company went bankrupt in 1960. It has been reduced from its former grandeur to the state you see in these photos.

The shell of the company store

The Amusement Hall built by the coal company for the miners in the 1940s. This structure also contained a restaurant, barber shop, and "beauty parlor."

Section of the camp behind the Amusement Hall

How many other coal camps had their own hotel? The current residents of Glen Rogers have allowed this landmark to fall into ruin.

Ruins of the coal preparation facility

Glen Rogers High School sits empty. It was built in 1951 to replace an earlier structure. The school was closed in 1992 when enrollment dropped under 200 students. It is not ruined yet, but will soon be.

The coal company built these two-family brick homes with indoor plumbing for the mine bosses. The miners homes, however, are of the wood frame type.

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