BELLBURN, WV
Bellburn was opened in the 1920's by Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Co. and named for company officials John BELL and H.H. BlackBURN.
A 1925 view of the Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Company store at Bellburn. This store is gone now, but a few of the coal camp houses remain.
The preparation plant and loadout at Bellburn date from the 1990s when A.T. Massey Coal Co. operated a mine here as subsidiary White Buck Coal Co.
Another view of the coal processing facility at Bellburn. Note the steel (instead of concrete) stacking tube on the left. This is now demolished.
A few remaining coal camp houses at Bellburn.
Looks like most of the Bellburn coal company housing
was of the bungalow type with pyramid roofs.
Aerial view showing what's left of the Bellburn mining camp on the right and coal mining brownfields on the left.
Image courtesy of Walter Caldwell
Apr. 2001 image by author
Apr. 2001 image by author
Circa 2011 image courtesy of Gray & Pape, Inc.
Circa 2011 image courtesy of Gray & Pape, Inc.
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