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Whipple Company Store, Whipple, WV. 29 July 2015.
Whipple Company Store, the “hub of the coal camp,” was built about 1900 and closed in 1957.
The Whipple Company Store is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 29 July 2015.
Today, the Whipple Company Store is a museum. For more info, follow this link: http://www.whipplecompanystore.com/
You can find more history for Whipple right here: http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Whipple,_West_Virginia
Map of Whipple and surrounding area. 29 July 2015.
Coal brought more ethnic and cultural DIVERSITY to southern West Virginia.
Brandon Ray Kirk 