Southwest Virginia Improvement Company (1880-1901)
Organization
Administrative History
The Southwest Virginia Improvement Company was founded in 1880 to develop the Pocahontas coalfields. It reorganized in 1901 as the Pocahontas Colleries Company. It then merged with the Pochahontas Consolidated Company in 1907 to form the Pocahontas Consolidated Colleries Company. Its name changed to the Pocahontas Fuel Company in 1917.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Southwest Virginia Improvement Company Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-030
Abstract
Notes of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, founded in 1880 to develop the Pocahontas coalfields, from meetings held by the company's incorporators, held at New River Depot, Virginia in October and November, 1880.
Dates:
1880