Freeman has a heritage that was dominated by "coal" mining operations in the late 1800s. The Buckeye Coal and Coke Company opened operations in 1886 in the small building beside the railway tracks as shown in the picture as taken approximately 1915. Buckeye Coal and Coke operated two tipples at the turn of the century. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediais:

Freeman a neighborhood of Bramwell, Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Freeman had its own post office, which closed on June 27, 2009. The community was named after John Freeman, the proprietor of a local mine