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Phillips-Sprague Mine, also known as the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, is a historic coal mine located at New River Park in Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. The mine opened about 1889 on what had been operated as a drift mine. Commercial development of the drift mine began in 1905 and the first coal was shipped on January 4, 1906.
The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine is a preserved coal mine that offers daily tours and a history lesson on coal mining in Appalachia. Tamarack Marketplace, a showcase of Appalachian arts and crafts, was built in 1996 at a cost of $10 million and dedicated to former Governor Gaston Caperton. [27]
Beckley Exhibition Mine: Beckley: Raleigh: New River/Greenbier River Valleys: Mining: Coal mine town, mine and museum, also Youth Museum of Southern WV Belle Boyd House: Martinsburg: Berkeley: Eastern Panhandle: Local history: website, operated by the Berkeley County Historical Society, family home of Civil War spy Belle Boyd: Beverly Heritage ...
Mar. 30—USA Today has named Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine among the Top 10 Best History Museums in the United States. The coal mine, which takes visitors underground into a coal mine and then on ...
Nov. 10—An international travel magazine has named West Virginia a top place to travel in 2022 and has featured Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine as a top tourist spot in its publications. Beckley ...
An exhibition mine is a mine that's accessible to the public and contains exhibitions about that particular mine and about the coal industry in general, effectively doubling as a museum. Notable exhibition mines
Exploitation of coal in West Virginia began in the 1840s with the mining and refining of cannel coal in the Kanawha Valley. [4] The principal coal fields in the Heritage Area include the New River , Winding Gulf and Flat Top-Pocahontas coal fields, of which the Pocahontas No. 3 seam was the most valuable.
The coal mining communities, or coal towns of Raleigh County, West Virginia were situated to exploit the area's rich coal seams. Many of these towns were located in deep ravines that afforded direct access to the coal through the hillsides, allowing mined coal to be dropped or conveyed downhill to railway lines at the valley floor. [1]