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Elkins Coal and Coke Company Historic District was designated as a National Historic Landmark
The Bretz coke ovens, the last beehive coke ovens to operate in West Virginia, are located in Preston County a half-mile southwest of Masontown. The town of Bretz and the mining plant there were built by the West Virginia Coal Company about 1903, ...
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