PEMBERTON
Pemberton is located on Soak Creek and was owned by the Pemberton Coal Co. Later the Lillybrook Coal Co. and Koppers Coal Co. simultaneously mined there, with each operating a company store. A few people still live there.
Where the C&O and Virginian railroads crossed.
This may have been a pump house for one of the Pemberton coal mines.
An old wooden railroad trestle near Pemberton.
An old coal mine fan by the road in Pemberton. This was demolished in early 2002.
One of the last remaining historic homes in Pemberton, the Doctor Daniels house, burned in 2007.
The Emanuel Amato family came to the Winding Gulf Coalfield from Sicily. They eventually settled in Pemberton, bought this house, raised
it up, and put a store underneath. Later, Philip Gaziano operated his barbershop there.
Emanuel Amato's (and his wife Provvidenza's) headstone at St. Francis de Sales cemetery in Beckley. Note "Riposa in Pace" etched in the stone - Italian for rest in peace.
This is the last wall of a store that burned in Pemberton. The store was owned by the late Sam Amato, brother of Emanuel.
Sam Amato's store as it looked in 1965
A great old picture of the railroad depot (Virginian?) contributed by Leonard S. That is smoke from one of the slate dumps on the left.
A wedding party poses in front of one of the slate dumps in Pemberton in 1946: Front Row L to R-Rena DellaMea, bride and groom Theresa
and Enrico Dellamea, his parents Maria and Pietro Dellamea; Back Row L to R: Louie, Gino, and Joe DellaMea.
Oct. 1997 image by author
Feb. 2001 image by author
May 2000 image by author
Dec. 1998 WV SHPO image by Jeff Davis
Nov. 2007 image by author
Oct. 1997 image by author
2020 image by author
Oct. 1997 image by author
Image courtesy of Leonard St. clair
Image courtesy of Leonard St. Clair
From a private collection