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Jordan Nelson's Coal Bank WV429 |
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Jordan Nelson, blacksmith, dug coal from bank to fuel forge, and made 1st commercial use by selling for 1 [cent sign] a bushel in 1870s. In 1873 I. A. Welch surveyed Pocahontas Coalfield for J. Hotchkiss who induced F. J. Kimball, later Pres. of N&WRR, to visit site May 1881. Southwest Va. Improvement Co. bought land and opened Pocahontas Mine and shipped coal over N&W's New River Line built to open coalfield.
West of Bramwell, county route 120, 3.1 miles west of US 52 and 0.1 miles east of Virginia border Mercer County West Virginia.
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West Virginia 