Excerpt from The Welfare of Children in Bituminous Coal Mining Communities in West Virginia
Agriculture and lumbering are the only industries besides coal mining, and neither is of great importance in the county.
Prior to the Opening of the coal mines, settlement was slow. Most of the population lived on rough mountain farms, and consisted of the descendants of the hunters and trappers from Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland who had made the first settlements at the end of the eighteenth century. It was not until about 1900, with the construction of a branch line of the Chesapeake Ohio Railroad,.
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