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Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District

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NRHP Reference #
  
97001417

Year built
  
1855

Nearest city
  
Alum Creek

Area
  
17 ha

Added to NRHP
  
24 November 1997

Architect
  
Rosecrans, William S., Coal River Na; Bowman Lumber, Coal River Boom & Tim

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.

References

Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District Wikipedia