“Life in the Coal Camps of Wise County,” just released, is a 200-page history book full of details about life in the coal camps. 

Local families no longer live in towns owned by coal companies. They no longer shop in company commissaries or watch movies in coal camp theaters, nor do their children attend school in the small, remote communities.

Although a handful of the houses, churches, stores and schools that made up Wise County’s coal camps are still here, many have been torn down as the communities were sold and shrunk in population. And many of the people who remember the camps in their heyday are being lost to time as well.

Because of work begun nearly four years ago by the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth and local high school and college students, hundreds of photographs, memories, relics of everyday life and news stories from the county’s old company towns are now available to the public.

Supply is limited so order your copy today!

To order a copy by mail, go to LPOY Shopping to use your credit card or mail your request  along with a check or money order for $35.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling, to:

 Lonesome Pine Office on Youth

 P.O. Box 568

 Big Stone Gap, VA  24219

 

Wise County Pictorial Now on Sale!!!   Reduced in
honor of Wise County's 150th Birthday! $20.00!

Looking Back: Wise County in the Early Years,
Second Edition

 

Books are now on sale!  The Second Edition is a 280 page, hard-back book which includes 35 new pages with over 55 new pictures.  You may purchase a copy  of the new edition at the following locations:

• Lonesome Pine Office on Youth ( 219 Wood Ave., Big Stone Gap – beside The Post)

• Miners Exchange Bank (locations in Appalachia , Coeburn, Norton and St. Paul ).

• Wise County Historical Society (Wise County Courthouse )

• June Tolliver House (Big Stone Gap)

To order a copy by mail, go to LPOY Shopping to use your credit card or mail your request  along with a check or money order for $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling, to:

 Lonesome Pine Office on Youth

 P.O. Box 568

 Big Stone Gap, VA  24219

 For more information, please call (276) 523-5064 ext. 10!

 

 

Lee County Pictorial On Sale Now!!
 

The Lee County Historical and Genealogical Society is delighted to announce that the most anticipated Pictorial History of Lee County is now on sale!  Over 1,400 photographs were collected and approximately 1,000 will be included in the 400 page hardback book. The cost of the book will be $40.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling if you would like the book mailed directly to you. Your purchase is tax deductible.

 

To order your copy by mail,  please click on the Lee button to the left, print the order form and send it, along with a check or money order payable to the Lee County Historical and Genealogical Society, to:

Lee County Historical & Genealogical Society

P. O. Box 231 

Jonesville, VA 24263  

You can also mail the order form and a check made out to the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth, to:

                Lonesome Pine Office on Youth

                P.O. Box 568

                Big Stone Gap, VA 24219

 

This Pictorial History of Lee County featuring pictures from the 1800’s to 1949 will make an excellent gift.  Only 3,000 copies of the book have been printed so make sure to get your copy today!  The books are available by contacting a member of the Lee County Historical Society directly or stopping in at the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth, located at 219 Wood Avenue in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 

 

 

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