Kimball, West Virginia Salutes Black Soldiers During WWI
I received some positive feedback on last month’s article on Matoaka, W. Va., so I thought I would continue this month in the Mountain State. We are still in the grip of COVID-19 (hard to believe) and it looks like the situation and all the related shut-downs, closures and precautions will be with us for some months more until an effective vaccine is developed. So this month we will continue our visit to the southern West Virginia coal region and the towns of Kimball and Welch.
Kimball is a small town in McDowell County incorporated in 1911. It was named for Frederick J. Kimball, President of the Norfolk and Western Railway which built its line through the mountains of southwestern Virginia into the previously untapped Flat Top-Pochahontas Coalfield in the 1880s.
Kimball was home to one of West
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