This led to the region’s coal being dubbed “New River Smokeless Coal.” One of the first people to act upon this promising resource was a young man named Joseph Beury. Beury was born in Pennsylvania in ...

By 1910 the company had mine at Spruce Knob, and another at Lost Flat in operation, and by 1917 the Elk Lick Company had opened its Spruce Knob mines, while the Meadow River Smokeless Coal Company was ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A group of women under the New Recada umbrella transforming solid waste into eco-friendly ...