SABINE, WV

Sabine, West Virginia (Glen Morrison)

Sabine was a coal camp serviced by the Virginian R.R. and originally known as Glen Morrison. It was opened in the 1920s by Morrison Coal Company. Mining was in the Sewell coal seam. In 1940, Morrison sold the mine and town to Belle-Mead Coal Company. Also known as Bellemead, this company renamed the town Sabine. Belle-Mead and closed the mine in 1953. The school at Sabine was closed around 1956.

I walked around and looked real hard for remains of the mining operation, but only found reclaimed grasslands and weed-infested railyards.

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Coal camp houses in Sabine.
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Another view of the coal camp.
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Sabine post office in one of the coal company houses.
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Management level company house.
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I thought that these railroad tracks at Sabine once served the Belle Mead tipple, but I have since learned that they served a 1970s-80s mine known as Ranger Fuel's Beckley No. 2.
Image courtesy of Phil
Phil has found some ruins of the Belle Mead coal mine.
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What Phil has indentified as a repair shop.
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The covered over mine portals.