* GARY, WV PRIMARY INDEX *

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.

Most of the homes in Gary No.3 or what was called Main Gary, are still there and occupied.  The No.3 big clubhouse, company store, power plant and coal tipple are gone.  The farther you go up the hollow into the adjoining Gary coal camp ccommunities, like Thorpe (No.4), Leslie (No.5), Ream (No.6), No.7, No.8 and No.9, No.10, Many of those houses ano longer remain standing. 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 Gary No.8 also Elbert Gary No.9 Filbert Gary No.10 Venus Gary No. 11 also Thorpe Gary No.12 Anawalt   The coals of the Pocahontas coalfield developed a good reputation, and by 1903, U.S. Steel had set up a subsidiary named U.S. Coal and Coke to mine coal in central McDowell County. The operations centered around Gary, with numbered coal mines/camps surrounding the central coal town of Gary like coal town suburbs. Wilcoe was Gary No. 1, Ream was Gary No. 6, Elbert was Gary No.8, and Venus was Gary No. 10 and Thorpe was No.11.