Canebrake, W.Va. is down the road from the big Berwind coal camp. In fact Canebrake was operated by the same company - New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co.
A March 1910 article in The Coal Trade Journal stated, "The New River & Pocahontas Coal Co., the concern in which are vested the West Virginia interests of the Berwind-White people, has started preliminary work on a new operation at Canebrake, in the Pocahontas field." Like many of the other mines in the area, Canbrake was in the Pocahontas No. 3 seam and served by the Norfolk & Western Railroad. New River & Pocahontas's mines in McDowell County eventually numbered 1 through 11, and Canbrake was No. 3.
