Coal Heritage Trail
Thurmond Historic District, WV

The National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the Thurmond historic district states the town is historically significant for its “extraordinary commercial vitality in the early 20th century in spite of extreme inaccessibility.” It served as the chief railroad center on the C&O Railroad for southern West Virginia; and produced more tonnage and revenue than Cincinnati and Richmond combined. Thurmond had not a street, but rather a railroad as its “main street.”