More Historic Photos
This is purported to be a postcard from around 1908 showing the railroad
entrance to Coalwood. We are unsure where this would have been taken.
DGcm4220: This is a supply train
sitting on the tracks that ran behind the Big Store in Coalwood. Photo
compliments of the David Goad Collection.
DGcm4219: Train crew. Photo
compliments of the David Goad Collection. (See photo below for names of
crew members.)
Coalwood's Passenger Train
Photo Courtesy of R. Tim Gilley Collection.
Tim says about the picture of the train: "Can't do any better as, when Early
Smith, one of Olga Coal's Mine Foremen sent to me, he had reversed the print
which was no better. I had to retype the names of the crew and glue underneath
the photos."
DGcm5171: Coalwood Service Station.
This is where the Country Store is today. The mine foreman's house would
be behind us. Photo compliments of the David Goad Collection.
DGschoolbribge: This
is the road leading to Coalwood Main. Parallel to the road are the N&W
railroad tracks which lead to the tipple. (The tipple is behind us on the
left side of the street.) Coalwood School (a.k.a. Coalwood Junior) is the
building on the hill on the left. The steel pedestrian bridge takes the
children across the road and the railroad tracks to school. Photo compliments of
the David Goad Collection.
Homer Hickam, Sr. at work in the mine. Photo compliments of the Homer
Hickam, Jr. collection.
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Jim Hickam 1962-1963 Football Season. Photos from the Virginia Tech Athletics Archive. |
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1928 Coalwood Junior High School Baseball Team
Photo Courtesy of R. Tim Gilley Collection
Coalwood Community Center
Photo Courtesy of R. Tim Gilley Collection
This building was located next door to the Big Store in Coalwood Main. At
one time, the building housed a community center, the Industrial Grade School,
and a theater. After the building was torn down, the floor and walls of
the basement were covered with concrete and turning into the Coalwood swimming
pool!
Club House in the 1920s
Photo Courtesy of R. Tim Gilley Collection
Consolidated Coal Company Tipple
Photo Courtesy of R. Tim Gilley Collection
(Tim attributes the photo to the David Goad Collection)
Men's Comedy Group
Date unknown
Photo Courtesy of R. Tim Gilley Collection
Coalwood Sunday School
Date unknown
Photo Courtesy of R. Tim Gilley Collection
Olga Woman's Club, 1963. Photo courtesy of the David Goad Collection.