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NEW RIVER GORGE
Historic Resource Study Kay Moor |
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CHRONOLOGY
| 1873 — | Purchase of Kay Moor property by Abiel Abbot Low of Low Moor Iron Company |
| 1873 — | Completion of Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad through the New River Gorge |
| 1899 — | Initial opening of Kay Moor No. 1 mine |
| 1900 — | First shipment of coal from Kay Moor No. 1 mine |
| 1901 — | Initial construction of employee housing at Kay Moor |
| 1902 — | Construction of employee housing |
| 1903 — | Opening of Kay Moor No. 2 mine |
| 1905 — | Construction of employee housing |
| 1918-1919 — | Construction of "New Camp" |
| 1923 — | United States Coal Commission investigation of Kay Moor |
| 1924 — | Fire destroyed tipple and other structures at Kay Moor No.1 |
| 1925 — | Sale of Kay Moor complex to New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal and Coke Company |
| 1926 — | Construction of new processing plant at Kay Moor No. 1, Kay Moor No. 2 closed |
| 1952 — | Abandonment of Kay Moor Bottom, most residents moved out |
| 1960 — | Fire destroyed most of Kay Moor Bottom |
| 1962 — | Kay Moor No. 1 closed |
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