Kelly’s Creek Colliery, as I understand it, was the primary coal mining company in operation at Ward, WV. It was owned by Valley Camp Coal. Anyone familiar with coal mining operations has undoubtedly heard of the company store. Mining companies...
By way of introduction I’ll first say Ward came into existence primarily as a result of the coal mining industry in West Virginia. I’ll give more about the overall history of Ward later. This post is about Ward Community Church. Later topics will...