GARY,WV
FATURING U. S. COAL & COKE CO. , NO . 3 & "GARY BOTTOM" COMMUNITY
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 Norfolthe k & 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.
There were several different neighborhood communities in Main Gary ( No. 3 ) , with names like Red Cross Street, Church Street, Highland Avenue, Lovers Lane, Hunk Hill, Pinch Back and Gary Bottom.
Here are the names of all the Gary Hollow mine numbers and community names.
Gary No.1 Wilcoe
Gary No.2 Alpheus
Gary No.3 Main Gary
Gary No.4 Thorpe
Gary No.5 Leslie
Gary No.6 Ream
Gary No.7 Elbert
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Gary No.9 Filbert
Gary No.10 Venus
Gary No. 11 also Thorpe
Gary No.12 Anawalt
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