Coal Company Housing: 1920s, 1930s and 1940s
A Coal Company Housing Project, This house was
occupied by William Simpson, a miner and his family. Louise Coal Company, Louise
Mine, Osage, Monongalia County, West Virginia
Picture: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/servlet/arc.ControllerServlet?&pg=1&si=0&st=b
A child sweeping up debris in front of a company house. The coal bin is under the front porch. Louise Coal Company, Louise Mine, Case, Monongalia County, West Virginia.
What beautiful children! Like their dads, I wonder how many of the boys became coal miners.
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Children of miners on front porch of house in company project. Louise Coal Company, Louise Mine, Osage, Monongalia County, West Virginia. <http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/arch_results_detail.jsp?&pg=13&si=0&st=b&rp=details&nh=100> , 06/14/1946 |
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This picture brings back memories of Mom
getting up every winter morning to put coal in the coal stove in the living
room, so we would be warm when we got up.
Mom, as a child, lived in a single-parent household. She used to go by the
railroad tracks to pick up coal that fell from the train, so her family could
have something to burn to keep warm.
| Scott's Run, West Virginia. [Woman gathering coal.] http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/arch_results_detail.jsp?&pg=4&si=0&st=b&rp=digital&nh=100> , 03/19/1937 |
This
is the community where I lived until the Fall of 1962.
I
lived up the road a few hundred yards in "Upper" Stickney.
This is a picture of a house in
"Upper" Stickney. It is similar to the one we lived in. This picture
was taken in the 1940s.
My parents bought their house but the coal
company owned the land. My parents had a 99 year lease on the land.
