The Farm Coaling Tower, near the county poor farm, was built in the 1930's and is an historic "concrete" railroad structure known as a landmark for rail enthusiasts, as it is still standing on an active line today.  The original "wooden" coaling facility was built in 1913 about a half mile further west.  The new tower is located near the "Farm" railroad location in West Virginia, a well-known spot on the Norfolk & Western Railway's Pocahontas Division, which ran along the Tug River between Welch and Davy.  The tower is located a quarter mile west of the Hemphill Tunnels on the Pocahontas Division.  Coaling towers like this one were used to load coal into steam locomotives as a fuel resupply during the age of steam railroading. They went out of use in the 1950s when railroads switched to diesel engines.  This concrete structure still stands, long after the last steam engine was refueled, largely because of the high cost of demolition. The tracks remain an active line for coal trains operated by Norfolk Southern.