West Virginia Coal and Coke Corporation was the operating company at Stirrat. Later the Stirrat mine was a possession of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Co. Now Massey Energy runs the mine there under the name Diamond Energy.

The preparation plant at Stirrat is still processing coal.

This has to be one of the last functional aerial tramways left in America.

A bin with a little house on top and the tram going up the mountain in the background.

Where the railroad crosses Rt. 44 in the Stirrat camp

This is one of the nicer mining camps. The houses are large and there are sidewalks, too. The coal silos are in the background.

Another view of the camp from near the plant entrance

Norma writes, "I was raised in Stirrat and lived in the coal camp called Littles Creek. Thank you for the memories! Yes, Littles Creek was part of the coal camp. The mines were so close [that] my daddy walked to work. My daddy moved there in 1950, and worked for West Virginia Coal and Coke. We owed our souls to the company store when my daddy worked in that mine."

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