Historical Marker

Raleigh County Coal Mines

Off Ewart Street, in park across from Beckley Exhibition Mine, Beckley · Beckley · Raleigh

Inscription

The county's first mine opened at Royal on the New River in 1891. The Beckley Exhibition Mine, once an actual operating mine, and the dozens of others throughout Raleigh County produced 792,055,155 tons of bituminous coal in the first century of the county's coal industry, 1891-1991. Employment at the county mines ran as high as 14,226 annually.

Location

AddressOff Ewart Street, in park across from Beckley Exhibition Mine, Beckley

CityBeckley

StateWest Virginia

Coordinates37.726370, -81.261210

Sources

West Virginia Archives and History, Highway Historical Marker Program

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