BROOKLYN

One of the last mining camps to be developed in the New River Gorge, Brooklyn was operated by the Scotia Coal & Coke Co., and later the Southern Coal Co. The mine, in the Sewell seam, probably closed in the 1950s or 60s.

The camp itself is located at the rim of the gorge, and there is actually a ridge that was stripped between the camp and the mine.

A few people still call Brooklyn camp home, but many of the houses are gone.

Detail of the button line conveyor running up the mountainside. There are also many concrete piers and some of the wooden structure that composed the button line.

The bunched up button line.

The headhouse at the top of the button line. A wooden mine car trestle comes out of the side of the headhouse, but is rotten and collapsing.

Inside the abandoned Brooklyn deep mine