FIRE CREEK

NAME: Fire Creek COUNTY: Fayette ROADS: 2WD GRID: 5 CLIMATE: Cool spring hot summer, cool fall, cold winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Late spring, summer and fall

COMMENTS: Located in the New River Gorge. Here is a good reference link. REMAINS: Foundations.

Mines were opened here as early as 1877. A post office and Presbyterian church were established. There were 142 workers by 1896. In 1906 there were 260 persons living here and by 1920 there were 420. The wooden depot survived here until the 1930's.

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