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| Coal Camp Name | Place ID | County Hungarian Labor Population 1910 | County Hungarian Labor Population 1920 | Lat | Long | County | State | Social Labor Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borderland | 16 | 202 | 127 | 37.713889 | -82.309167 | Mingo | WV | |
| Himler | 49 | 202 | 127 | 37.8025 | -82.304722 | Mingo | WV | Established by Hungarian Martin Himler who later sold the operation to a Slovakian named John Matta. The mine failed during the Mingo County mining wars. |
| Williamson | 110 | 202 | 127 | 37.673889 | -82.279722 | Mingo | WV | |
| Rawl | 84 | 202 | 127 | 37.649722 | -82.219444 | Mingo | WV | |
| Matewan | 65 | 202 | 127 | 37.623056 | -82.166389 | Mingo | WV | |
| Red Jacket | 85 | 202 | 127 | 37.647222 | -82.137778 | Mingo | WV | The most stable Hungarian community in Mingo County after 1910. The Red Jacket Hungarians were pro-union but elected not to participate in the regions mining wars. |
| Holden | 50 | 364 | 833 | 37.818611 | -82.061667 | Logan | WV | Lying just southwest of Logan, Holden for many years was home to a large number of Hungarian families. Julianna Puskas' classic book, Ties that Bind, Ties that Divide describes many of the families living there after 1910. |
| Monitor | 69 | 364 | 833 | 37.793056 | -82.052778 | Logan | WV | |
| Whitmans Creek | 108 | 364 | 833 | 37.813333 | -82.024444 | Logan | WV | |
| Cherry Tree | 26 | 364 | 833 | 37.50311 | -82.00254 | Logan | WV | |
| Omar | 78 | 364 | 833 | 37.755556 | -81.999444 | Logan | WV | |
| Monaville | 68 | 364 | 833 | 37.811944 | -81.994722 | Logan | WV | |
| Arocoma | 4 | 364 | 833 | 37.858992 | -81.992069 | Logan | WV | |
| Logan | 57 | 364 | 833 | 37.848333 | -81.987778 | Logan | WV | |
| Chauncey | 25 | 364 | 833 | 37.766111 | -81.9875 | Logan | WV | |
| Switzer | 94 | 364 | 833 | 37.793611 | -81.9875 | Logan | WV | |
| Lyburn | 60 | 364 | 833 | 37.801944 | -81.931111 | Logan | WV | |
| Earling | 36 | 364 | 833 | 37.766389 | -81.915278 | Logan | WV | |
| Manbar | 62 | 364 | 833 | 37.766389 | -81.915278 | Logan | WV | Name of this coal camp was later changed to Earling, WV |
| Ethel | 41 | 364 | 833 | 37.866389 | -81.912222 | Logan | WV | |
| Hutchinson | 51 | 271 | 321 | 39.440556 | -81.908056 | Marion | WV | |
| Dehue | 32 | 364 | 833 | 37.806111 | -81.905833 | Logan | WV | |
| Taplin | 96 | 364 | 833 | 37.758333 | -81.895556 | Logan | WV | |
| Accoville | 1 | 364 | 833 | 37.768611 | -81.836944 | Logan | WV | This Logan County community claims over 20% Hungarian descendents as of 2015. |
| Black Betsey | 12 | 0 | 4 | 38.499722 | -81.835556 | Putnam | WV | |
| Beech Creek | 9 | 364 | 833 | 37.920833 | -81.83 | Logan | WV | |
| Sharples | 90 | 364 | 833 | 37.920278 | -81.829167 | Logan | WV | |
| Blair | 14 | 364 | 833 | 37.878333 | -81.827778 | Logan | WV | |
| Alum Creek | 2 | 0 | 7 | 38.279167 | -81.825556 | Lincoln | WV | |
| Dobra | 33 | 364 | 833 | 37.934444 | -81.824167 | Logan | WV | |
| Ottowa | 79 | 2 | 83 | 37.958611 | -81.816389 | Boone | WV | |
| Amherstdale | 3 | 364 | 833 | 37.785278 | -81.809167 | Logan | WV | |
| Lundale | 59 | 364 | 833 | 37.801111 | -81.744167 | Logan | WV | |
| English | 39 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.337778 | -81.715 | McDowell | WV | |
| Lorado | 58 | 364 | 833 | 37.795556 | -81.714722 | Logan | WV | |
| Roderfield | 88 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.450278 | -81.705556 | McDowell | WV | |
| War | 100 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.301111 | -81.684167 | McDowell | WV | |
| Caretta | 21 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.335556 | -81.672778 | McDowell | WV | In the 1910s, the road here along Barrenshe Creek was dubbed "Hunky Road" by the locals because of the large number of Hungarian families living there. |
| Twin-Branch | 99 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.474722 | -81.668333 | McDowell | WV | |
| Berwind | 10 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.268611 | -81.666667 | McDowell | WV | |
| Premier | 83 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.422222 | -81.643611 | McDowell | WV | |
| Canebrake | 20 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.2475 | -81.640833 | McDowell | WV | |
| Cucumber | 30 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.277778 | -81.626667 | McDowell | WV | |
| Newhall | 76 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.263611 | -81.618611 | McDowell | WV | |
| Welch | 102 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.428611 | -81.551389 | McDowell | WV | |
| Filbert | 43 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.318056 | -81.543889 | McDowell | WV | By the 1920s, Filbert was a Hungarian village with most of the men working the US Steel Number 9 mine. |
| Gary | 44 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.361389 | -81.543889 | McDowell | WV | US Steel Operation in Gary was the largest in the US. By 1915, the mine operation was dominated by Hungarian labor. |
| Thorpe | 98 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.368611 | -81.516389 | McDowell | WV | Thorpe is home to one of the largest Catholic Hungarian graveyards in Appalachia. |
| East Vivian | 37 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.418056 | -81.487222 | McDowell | WV | |
| Cabin Creek | 19 | 292 | 137 | 38.195833 | -81.480116 | Fayette | WV | |
| Pageton | 80 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.349167 | -81.465278 | McDowell | WV | |
| Eckman | 38 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.404444 | -81.464167 | McDowell | WV | One of the most agregious acts of peonage, or debt slavery involving Hungarians and Russian laborers, occurred here in the 1890s. Yet over time, the Hungarian population grew, and families here established an active Orthodox Church in this location. |
| Dorothy | 34 | 206 | 163 | 37.955833 | -81.450556 | Raleigh | WV | Raleigh County mines around Oak Hill, West Virginia, became one of the centers of Hungarian activity. |
| Notomine | 77 | 154 | 138 | 37.984167 | -81.432222 | Kanawha | WV | |
| Jenkinjones | 53 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.293611 | -81.425833 | McDowell | WV | |
| Wevaco | 106 | 154 | 138 | 38.001944 | -81.424722 | Kanawha | WV | |
| Mucklow | 75 | 154 | 138 | 38.173056 | -81.401667 | Kanawha | WV | |
| Paint Creek | 81 | 154 | 138 | 38.209444 | -81.391667 | Kanawha | WV | Several striking Hungarian miners lost their lives during the 1912 Paint Creek and Cabin Creek strike. |
| Winding Gulf | 112 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.414722 | -81.389722 | McDowell | WV | |
| Worthington | 114 | 2302 | 1202 | 37.414722 | -81.389722 | McDowell | WV | |
| Ward | 101 | 154 | 138 | 38.246389 | -81.388056 | Kanawha | WV | |
| Big Vein | 11 | 238 | 98 | 37.296111 | -81.356667 | Mercer | WV | West Virginia Coal Company operating along the WV-VA line near Bluefield. |
| Bramwell | 17 | 202 | 98 | 37.326944 | -81.312778 | WV | Bramwell shares the WV-VA border with Pocahontas and was home to a large Hungarian community that lived along what is still called ""Hunk Hollow Road"". | |
| Tams | 95 | 206 | 163 | 37.664722 | -81.3075 | Raleigh | WV | |
| Thayer | 97 | 206 | 163 | 37.664722 | -81.3075 | Raleigh | WV | |
| Stotesbury | 92 | 206 | 163 | 37.681667 | -81.288611 | Raleigh | WV | |
| Crystal | 29 | 238 | 98 | 37.373333 | -81.271389 | Mercer | WV | |
| Davis Mine | 31 | 57 | 11 | 39.173611 | -81.271389 | Tucker | WV | |
| Marting | 64 | 206 | 163 | 38.201944 | -81.252778 | Raleigh | WV | |
| Springton | 91 | 238 | 98 | 37.455833 | -81.244167 | Mercer | WV | |
| Worth | 113 | 206 | 163 | 37.678056 | -81.239722 | Raleigh | WV | |
| Bluefield | 15 | 238 | 98 | 37.262222 | -81.218611 | Mercer | WV | One Hungarian miner, György Kemény, gave poetic expression to the plight of West Virginian and Southwest Virginian Hungarian miners who were frequently killed or maimed working at the mines near Bluefield and other areas in the Pocahontas field: In the cemetery of Bluefield, graves are dug,Many graves are needed for the poor miners,Strangled by the anger of the mine.But they were Hungarians, so no one cares! Under bald hills, along a filthy riverA forge sprinkles its flames on the sky,Covering everything with thick billows of smokeAt times it seems even the smoke blazes. It booms, growls, howlsAnd lumbers awfully,As if even the Earth's very soul roared from it,Because its fetus was stolen from its womband pushed into the flames of an iron furnace. Suddenly it explodes, louder than a cannon, As if the old Earth gags in anguish.Men run, arrive on bell-ringer carsAnd take away many people, Some dead, others, rattling But it is over soon, and everything resumes,Workers are yoked terribly,As if Death had not exacted its grim toll Only moments before. |
| Glen Jean | 47 | 292 | 137 | 37.926389 | -81.15 | Fayette | WV | |
| Lochgelly | 56 | 292 | 137 | 38.010556 | -81.145 | Fayette | WV | |
| Widen | 109 | 12 | 34 | 38.466111 | -80.857222 | Clay | WV | |
| Moundsville | 73 | 111 | 23 | 39.916667 | -80.733333 | Marshall | WV | |
| McMechen | 66 | 111 | 23 | 39.987222 | -80.731389 | Marshall | WV | |
| Copen | 28 | 44 | 16 | 38.8375 | -80.729444 | Braxton | WV | |
| Wheeling | 107 | 15 | 68 | 40.070278 | -80.698611 | Ohio | WV | Wheeling and Ohio County saw a larger number of Hungarian laborers in the 1890s. Beginning in the early 1900s, more Hungarians moved into the mines across the Ohio River in places like Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio. |
| Beech Bottom | 8 | 68 | 154 | 40.224167 | -80.652222 | Brooke | WV | |
| Wellsburg | 103 | 68 | 154 | 40.27737 | -80.609349 | Brooke | WV | |
| Richwood | 87 | 12 | 15 | 38.223611 | -80.536667 | Nicholas | WV | |
| Weston | 105 | 10 | 0 | 39.041944 | -80.47 | Lewis | WV | |
| Wilsonburg | 111 | 248 | 185 | 39.2925 | -80.396111 | Harrison | WV | |
| Mt. Clare | 74 | 248 | 185 | 39.215278 | -80.345556 | Harrison | WV | |
| Pine Bluff | 82 | 248 | 185 | 39.418056 | -80.327222 | Harrison | WV | |
| Meadowbrook | 67 | 248 | 185 | 39.351667 | -80.318611 | Harrison | WV | |
| Downs | 35 | 271 | 321 | 39.518333 | -80.303611 | Marion | WV | |
| Lyon Stop | 61 | 248 | 185 | 39.394167 | -80.300278 | Harrison | WV | |
| Enterprise | 40 | 248 | 185 | 39.419722 | -80.276667 | Harrison | WV | |
| Red Rock | 86 | 5 | 0 | 39.011944 | -80.276111 | Upshur | WV | |
| Carolina | 22 | 271 | 321 | 39.480278 | -80.273333 | Marion | WV | |
| Idamay | 52 | 271 | 321 | 39.496944 | -80.256944 | Marion | WV | |
| Farmington | 42 | 271 | 321 | 39.513056 | -80.251944 | Marion | WV | |
| Monongah | 70 | 271 | 321 | 39.4625 | -80.218333 | Marion | WV | More than 50 Hungarian miners were killed in the 1907 Monongah mine explosion, which remains the worst mining disaster in US history. Left without any support, many of the widows and their children were forced to return to Hungary. |
| Century | 23 | 81 | 70 | 39.099722 | -80.188611 | Barbour | WV | |
| Grant Town | 48 | 271 | 321 | 39.557222 | -80.178611 | Marion | WV | |
| Barackville | 5 | 271 | 321 | 39.502778 | -80.169722 | Marion | WV | |
| Rosemont | 89 | 20 | 59 | 39.268611 | -80.162778 | Taylor | WV | |
| Baxter | 6 | 271 | 321 | 39.543889 | -80.142222 | Marion | WV | |
| Montana Mines | 71 | 271 | 321 | 39.526944 | -80.108889 | Marion | WV | |
| Wendel | 104 | 20 | 59 | 39.296389 | -80.105278 | Taylor | WV | |
| Chaplin | 24 | 0 | 288 | 39.650556 | -80.028333 | Monongalia | WV | Hungarians began entering Granville, Osage, Chaplin and other Monongalia mines around 1912. |
| Coalton | 27 | 12 | 3 | 38.896944 | -79.963889 | Randolph | WV | |
| Morgantown | 72 | 0 | 288 | 39.616667 | -79.928056 | Monongalia | WV | Hungarians entered the mines surrounding Morgantown beginning in 1912. As in other communities, the Hungarians planted roots here and even organized a Reformed Church in Sabraton. |
| Sullivan | 93 | 12 | 3 | 38.907222 | -79.869722 | Randolph | WV | |
| Bretz | 18 | 20 | 283 | 39.542222 | -79.800556 | Preston | WV | |
| Manheim | 63 | 20 | 283 | 39.360278 | -79.690833 | Preston | WV | Now a neighborhood in Rowlesburg, WV |
| Kempton | 55 | 20 | 283 | 39.207 | -79.487015 | Preston | WV | Most of the mine lay in Garrett County, Maryland while many of the Hungarians lived nearby on the Preston County side of the state border. |
| Bayard | 7 | 0 | 0 | 39.271111 | -79.366111 | Grant | WV | |
| Blaine | 13 | 1 | 0 | 39.385833 | -79.179722 | Mineral | WV | |
| Gilbert | 45 | 202 | 127 | 37.614444 | -81.867222 | Mingo | WV | |
| Glen Alum | 46 | 202 | 127 | 37.584722 | -81.992778 | Mingo | WV | |
| Johnstown | 54 | 206 | 163 | 37.781944 | -81.168333 | Raleigh | WV |