Winding Gulf Coal Field

From West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia

The Winding Gulf Coal Field is a coal producing area of West Virginia that includes the following counties, in whole or in part: Raleigh and Wyoming counties.

The first shipment from the Winding Gulf field was made in 1907 by G. H. Capeton and W. Gaston Caperton from the mines of the Slab Fork Coal Company. Another early mining operation was opened by Justus Collins in 1909, at Winding Gulf, WV, an operation later consolidated into the Winding Gulf Colliers.