Ellamore, West Virginia
Encyclopedia
Ellamore is an unincorporated community in Randolph
and Upshur
counties, West Virginia
, United States
. Ellamore is located on County Route 151 along the Middle Fork River
8 miles (12.9 km) southeast of Buckhannon
. Ellamore has a post office
with ZIP code
26267.
, hemlock
, and poplar
timber in the region and established a band sawmill along the Middle Fork River. The community that grew around the sawmill was named for Ella, wife of Moore-Keppel's co-founder John B. Moore. Some 22 miles of railroad track were laid in the area to extract the 100,000 board feet of lumber that could be produced by the sawmill each day. In 1917, Moore-Keppel formed a coal
division, the Three Forks Coal Company, which operated a mine near Cassity, West Virginia
that also utilized the logging railroad as a means to haul coal. The sawmill closed in 1946 do to the exhaustion of timber, although the railroad continued to be used by the coal mines until the late 1960s.
Randolph County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 28,262 people, 11,072 households, and 7,661 families residing in the county. The population density was 27 people per square mile . There were 13,478 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile...
and Upshur
Upshur County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 23,404 people, 8,972 households, and 6,352 families residing in the county. The population density was 66 people per square mile . There were 10,751 housing units at an average density of 30 per square mile...
counties, West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Ellamore is located on County Route 151 along the Middle Fork River
Middle Fork River
The Middle Fork River is a tributary of the Tygart Valley River in north-central West Virginia, USA. Via the Tygart Valley, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of on the easternmost part of the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny...
8 miles (12.9 km) southeast of Buckhannon
Buckhannon, West Virginia
Buckhannon is the only incorporated city in, and the county seat of, Upshur County, West Virginia, United States, and is located along the Buckhannon River. The population was 5,725 at the 2000 census. Buckhannon is home to West Virginia Wesleyan College and the West Virginia Strawberry Festival,...
. Ellamore has a post office
Post office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
with ZIP code
ZIP Code
ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...
26267.
History
The community of Ellamore began in 1902 after the Moore-Keppel Lumber Company bought some 29,640 acres of spruceSpruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea , a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the earth. Spruces are large trees, from tall when mature, and can be distinguished by their whorled branches and conical...
, hemlock
Hemlock
The word hemlock may refer to:*Hemlock, several poisonous plants in the Apiaceae family :**Hemlock , two species, one formerly used as a method of execution**Water Hemlock...
, and poplar
Poplar
Populus is a genus of 25–35 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. English names variously applied to different species include poplar , aspen, and cottonwood....
timber in the region and established a band sawmill along the Middle Fork River. The community that grew around the sawmill was named for Ella, wife of Moore-Keppel's co-founder John B. Moore. Some 22 miles of railroad track were laid in the area to extract the 100,000 board feet of lumber that could be produced by the sawmill each day. In 1917, Moore-Keppel formed a coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
division, the Three Forks Coal Company, which operated a mine near Cassity, West Virginia
Cassity, West Virginia
Cassity is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. Cassity is located at the confluence of the Cassity Fork and the Middle Fork River along County Route 35, west of Beverly....
that also utilized the logging railroad as a means to haul coal. The sawmill closed in 1946 do to the exhaustion of timber, although the railroad continued to be used by the coal mines until the late 1960s.