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Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Railroad Building, .8 mile West of County Route 7/29, Bretz, Preston County, WV
Summary
Significance: The Railroad Building is part of the Elkins Coal & Coke Company mine complex. The Elkins Coal & Coke Company mine complex consists of 140 beehive coke ovens that were the nation's last known operating beehive coke ovens. Significant to the industrial history of the United States, the Elkins Coal & Coke Company produced coke necessary for the production of iron and steel.
Survey number: HAER WV-7-C
Building/structure dates: ca. 1906- 1919 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 83003249
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Date
1906
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Michael Baker Jr., Inc., contractor
Lavalley, M Pilar, transmitter
Cooke, Kevin R, photographer
Owen, Christopher B, historian
Location
Bretz, 39.54231, -79.80061
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
