"American Coal Company. The first commercial coal mine west of the Allegheny Mountains. The mine was opened in 1852. It was located in Fairmont, one block below the Watson Hotel on the Monongahela River and at the Baltimore [and] Ohio Railroad passanger station. The mine was opened in 1852 by James Otis Watson Of Fairmont. Scene shows 'Fairmont from the east side showing newspaper Building, 'Church on the Hill', and the hotel which later became the Hough House and the Skinner's Tavern."
Staff of the Normal Daily Student Newspaper at Fairmont State Normal School, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1894/06/12
Description:
Daily Staff members of Fairmont State Normal School in Fairmont, West Virginia pose for a group portrait; See Misc. newspapers on Micro. Reel 7, F1.25 06/12/1894 issue)
Fairmont State Normal School - New Addition from Palatine Knob, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1896
Description:
A close-up view of the new addition from Palatine Knob, in Fairmont, West Virginia. Fairmont Normal School building is the tall building left of center. Beeson's Hill bounds the city in the right background. See photograph numbers 005811 and 005812 for a continuation of this view of Fairmont.
View of Fairmont, West Virginia from Palatine Knob. Hamilton's Hill bounds the city in the left background. Houses stand on Pierpont's Hill on the right.
View of Fairmont, West Virginia from Hamilton's Hill. Homes and businesses of Fairmont are bounded by the Monongahela River on the right side of the photograph. Fairmont Normal School building is the tall building in the upper center of the image.
View of the center of Fairmont, West Virginia from Palatine Knob. Beeson's Hill is visible on the left, Reed's Knob is is just right of center, and Hamilton's Hill is above the city on the right.
The Florence Belle pulling up to the edge of the river next to a train. 'At foot of Quincy St., showing Capt. Walker's House and Cal Arnett's home, one of the first modern homes in the city.'
Two African-American Newsboys and Unidentified man stand outside C. N Chilins, located on Madison Ave. Fairmont, W. Va...eventually (relocated) to the first floor of Watson Hotel.
Lawler Class 1909, First Ward School, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1909
Description:
Members of the class are: Blanch Pearl Satterfield; Eva Linn Summers; Ruth Meryle West; Lora Eva May; Minnie Gay Satterfield; Clarence Lloyd Garner; Wagner Edgar Carpenter; Louis Harvey Esterline; Mame Florence McWhorter; Harry Colven Morgan; LaFayette E. Vincent; Hood Satterfield; Elsie Annett Clelland; Harry Ray Smouse; ray edward Horner; Larned Arnold Radford; Hattie bailey Boggs; Bernard James Costilow; Chesley Ray Boggs; Dove Washington Jones; Lena Hazel Satterfield; Mary Ruth Stevens; Susie May Daugherty; Herschell Dewitt Kingcaid; Mertha May Hayhurst; Divinia Meyers Brown; Maud Virginia Merrifield; Virginia Louetta Helmick; Earl Numan Phillips.
!["American Coal Company. The first commercial coal mine west of the Allegheny Mountains. The mine was opened in 1852. It was located in Fairmont, one block below the Watson Hotel on the Monongahela River and at the Baltimore [and] Ohio Railroad passanger station. The mine was opened in 1852 by James Otis Watson Of Fairmont. Scene shows 'Fairmont from the east side showing newspaper Building, 'Church on the Hill', and the hotel which later became the Hough House and the Skinner's Tavern."](/thumb/005721.jpg "Fairmont, W. Va. - View from the East Side")
