Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District

Address Restricted, Alum Creek, West Virginia. County/parish: Kanawha.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 24, 1997. NRIS 97001417.

59 contributing structures.

From Wikipedia:

Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District

Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District is a national historic district and historic archaeological site located on the Coal River in Boone, Lincoln, and Kanawha County, West Virginia. It consists of an underwater resource depicting the navigation and transportation system used on the Coal River during the late-19th and early-20th century. It includes remains of timber cribs, locks and dams, and a lock master house. It was designed by William Rosecrans in the mid-1850s, and was one of the first complete lock and dam systems in West Virginia.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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