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TITLE:
Nuttallburg Mine Complex, North side of New River, 2.7 miles upstream from F, Lookout vicinity, Fayette County, WV

CALL NUMBER:
HAER WVA,10-LOUT.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 14  (24 x 36 in.)
Data Page(s): 120 plus cover page

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
West Virginia University Institute for the History, field team
Maddex, Lee R., historian
Hriblan, John, delineator
Boxley, Paul, delineator
McClung, Kevin, delineator
Hriblan, John, delineator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER WV-51

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N747).

Significance: The Nuttallburg Mine was one of the earliest mines to open in the New River Field. The Retarding Conveyor is one of the longest ever constructed and perhaps one of the few still extant. The Nuttallburg Mine Complex is representative of the rural industrialization and is typical of the extractive industries located in the New River Gorge and West Virginia.

SUBJECTS:
WEST VIRGINIA--Fayette County--Lookout vicinity

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.wv0352

CONTROL #:
WV0352

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