Coalwood is an unincorporated coal town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The coal mine in Coalwood reached its peak in the 1950s and...

October Sky is based on the lives of four young men who grew up in Coalwood, West Virginia. Principal photography took place in rural East Tennessee, including...

Elsie Gardener Hickam (née Lavender). He was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia, and graduated from Big Creek High School in 1960. He and friends...

Store was a historic company store building located at Coalwood, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was built by the Carter Coal Company about 1912, and...

about his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia, the third in a trilogy that began with Rocket Boys and continued with The Coalwood Way. The book was published...

in Coalwood. U.S. Route 52 West Virginia Route 16 West Virginia Route 80 West Virginia Route 83 West Virginia Route 103 West Virginia Route 161 West Virginia...

percent of all scrip used was by coal companies in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. Because of this, many derived nicknames for the type of currency...

Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr. lives in a small coal mining town in West Virginia named Coalwood. Sonny, after seeing the Russian satellite Sputnik, decides to...

date. Cass, West Virginia, founded in 1901 for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company logging the nearby mountains Coalwood, West Virginia, formerly owned...

his mother was a kindergarten art teacher. They had married in Coalwood, West Virginia. Before Carl was born, in 1942, Richard was transferred to Killeen...

jet-propulsed rocket in the declining Appalachian coal town of Coalwood, West Virginia as a result of the Space Race. The novel Prodigal Summer (2000)...

"Cass Scenic Railroad State Park". West Virginia State Parks. Division of Natural Resources, State of West Virginia. n.d. Retrieved 11 March 2020. "Company...

The Coalwood Way (2000) is the second memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. The Coalwood Way is a story of the Rocket Boys and Coalwood. Homer...

West Virginia Route 83 is an east–west state highway located within McDowell County, West Virginia. The western terminus is at the Virginia state line...

"Not One Less". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2 November 2023. "Coalwood, West Virginia". www.coalwoodwestvirginia.com. Archived from the original on 18...

Register of Historic Places in 1992. Carter Coal Company Store (Coalwood, West Virginia) Carter v. Carter Coal Co. "National Register Information System"...

(Caretta, West Virginia), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in West Virginia Carter Coal Company Store (Coalwood, West Virginia), listed...

(US 52) skirts the western fringes of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It runs from the Virginia state line near Bluefield, where it is concurrent with...

grommets. Large brass gears were obtained from a coal mine in Coalwood, West Virginia where Hickam's father was the superintendent. The cadets also retrieved...

American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entirety of the U.S. state of West Virginia. The numbering plan area was established in October 1947 with area code...

film with the anagram October Sky) and retired NASA engineer; in Coalwood, West Virginia Lou Christie (stage name for Lugee Sacco), American singer known...

would also plan and create the coal towns of Coalwood, West Virginia, and Caretta, West Virginia. Coalwood would later become famous as the boyhood home...

regulations. Carter Coal Company Store (Caretta, West Virginia) Carter Coal Company Store (Coalwood, West Virginia) List of United States Supreme Court cases...

(née Thompson) Charlton, a housewife. Cornelius briefly moved to Coalwood, West Virginia in 1940 to live with his brother, Arthur. In 1944, the family moved...

volunteer in the area. Caretta's coal mine was connected to the mine in nearby Coalwood, made famous in the book Rocket Boys. The Carter Coal Company Store was...

the National Register of Historic Places listings in McDowell County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts...

Oliver Springs Sites in the Filming of Rocket Boys (October Sky). Coalwood, West Virginia official site. Retrieved: 19 February 2010. Wikimedia Commons has...

County/McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in Pocahontas, Virginia in 1883 at Pocahontas...

Junior High School Berwind Junior High School Bradshaw Junior High School Coalwood Junior High Davy Junior High Hemphill-Capels Junior High Keystone Junior...

1940. Broadus (county seat) Biddle Bay Horse Belle Creek Cameron Crossing Coalwood Elkhorn Crossing Epsie Moorhead Olive Otter Powderville Sayle Sonnette...