Image from an Eastern Fuel and Gas employee magazineKenneth Johnson was a section foreman in the Powellton No. 7 Mine.Aug. 2007 image by authorThis was the Koppers Company Store (Store No. 17) in Kimberly, WV. Of course the roll up door is not original.Image from an Eastern Fuel and Gas employee magazinePhoto of the Kimberly company store when it was still a company store.Jan. 2005 image by authorAt Powellton, WV can be found the only remaining beehive coke ovens in the Kanawha Coalfield. I don't know how old they are, but coal and coke operations at Powellton date back to the 1890s.Jan. 2005 image by authorCoal camp houses at Powellton.These company houses at Powellton were probably built by the Koppers Coal Company when the took over the Powellton coal mines around 1936. They are simalar to the company houses that Koppers built in Kopperston, WV. Before Koppers came to Powellton the operator was Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Company. Powellton is also the name of a seam of coal first mined here. The Eagle seam was also mined at Powellton. (Jan. 2005 image by author)Image source forgottenThe crude condition of the Powellton coal camp before Koppers came in and spruced it up.Image courtesy WVDEP AML ProgramSlate dump in Craig Hollow - tributary to Armstrong Creek and Powellton Hollow.Aug. 2007 image by authorThis abandoned prep plant near Elk Ridge was a property of Cyprus-Amax Coal Co. Obviously it was constructed after the railroads running up the two forks of Armstrong Creek were removed, because it appears to be designed for truck loading (probably hauling to a barge loadout) rather than train loading.Dec. 1934 image courtsy of Walter CaldwellVintage photo of the aftermath of a train explosion in McDunn, a coal camp that was up the hollow from Powellton.1940s image from an Eastern Fuel and Gas employee magazineForemen from the Powellton No. 3 mine of Eastern Fuel and Gas.
