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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