SCENES FROM POWELLTON HOLLOW
Kenneth Johnson was a section foreman in the Powellton No. 7 Mine.
This was the Koppers Company Store (Store No. 17) in Kimberly, WV. Of course the roll up door is not original.
Photo of the Kimberly company store when it was still a company store.
At Powellton, WV can be found the only remaining beehive coke ovens in the Kanawha Coalfield. I don't know how old they are, but coal and coke operations at Powellton date back to the 1890s.
Coal camp houses at Powellton.
These company houses at Powellton were probably built by the Koppers Coal Company when the took over the Powellton coal mines around 1936. They are simalar to the company houses that Koppers built in Kopperston, WV.
Before Koppers came to Powellton the operator was Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Company. Powellton is also the name of a seam of coal first mined here. The Eagle seam was also mined at Powellton. (Jan. 2005 image by author)
The crude condition of the Powellton coal camp before Koppers came in and spruced it up.
Slate dump in Craig Hollow - tributary to Armstrong Creek and Powellton Hollow.
This abandoned prep plant near Elk Ridge was a property of Cyprus-Amax Coal Co. Obviously it was constructed after the railroads running up the two forks of Armstrong Creek were removed, because it appears
to be designed for truck loading (probably hauling to a barge loadout) rather than train loading.
Vintage photo of the aftermath of a train explosion in McDunn, a coal camp that was up the hollow from Powellton.
Foremen from the Powellton No. 3 mine of Eastern Fuel and Gas.
Image from an Eastern Fuel and Gas employee magazine
Aug. 2007 image by author
Image from an Eastern Fuel and Gas employee magazine
Jan. 2005 image by author
Jan. 2005 image by author
Jan. 2005 image by author
Image source forgotten
Image courtesy WVDEP AML Program
Aug. 2007 image by author
Dec. 1934 image courtsy of Walter Caldwell
1940s image from an Eastern Fuel and Gas employee magazine
