GARY MAIN, WV

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From the West Virginia Encyclopedia Site Text:

The creation of Gary marked the entry of J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel into southern West Virginia, when Bramwell banker I. T. Mann, with Morgan's backing, exercised an option on prime coal-bearing land owned by the Norfolk & Western Railway's Flat Top Land Association. Morgan's company ultimately claimed a lease for more than 50,000 acres along Sandlick Creek of the Tug Fork and began constructing the huge works in 1901, designed to provide abundant high-quality coal and coke to the national industrial conglomerate. Thus, U.S. Coal & Coke was an affiliate of U.S. Steel.