Kaymoor Two mine site
A former mine site in Fayetteville, West Virginia, opened in 1903, Kaymoor Two mine site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Former pick-mine operation distinct from Kaymoor One. The archive files it under abandoned sites and industrial history. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is gone; what remains is the record and the ground it stood on.
Former underground workings are not visitor-accessible; no mine-entry instructions or precise entrance pin.
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Is Kaymoor Two mine site haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
In 1903 the Low Moor Iron Company opened a second mine inside the New River Gorge, near what is now Fayette Station Road below Fayetteville, and gave it the plain name Kaymoor Two. Where Kaymoor One ran on steam-era technology, the newer workings stayed an old-fashioned pick mine, ventilated by a fire furnace that pulled air through a single opening — a system the National Park Service notes was considered outdated even in the 1920s. The town itself lived on two levels: the mine at the bottom of the gorge, the residential blocks up toward the ridge.
Documented history
Low Moor Iron had bought its West Virginia acreage in 1873 to feed the company's Virginia furnaces, and the first Kaymoor coal shipped in 1900. Kaymoor Two never matched its older sister operation. The company store and houses at the upper level closed in 1923, and on March 1, 1925, Low Moor sold both Kaymoor properties to the New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company, a Berwind-White affiliate. The Kaymoor Two mine itself closed the following year, in 1926.
Its last job was structural rather than mineral. During construction of the New River Gorge Bridge in the 1970s, engineers filled the abandoned Kaymoor Two workings with concrete so the ground could support one of the bridge pylons — the mine literally became the footing of the span that replaced the gorge's old descent road. The underground workings are not visitor-accessible; the NPS maintains its interpretation at the Kaymoor One site on the opposite side of the river.
Documented history
Opened in 1903; houses and store closed in 1923 and mine in 1926. NPS says a bridge pylon later required filling the mine with concrete. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Kaymoor'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Sources on file
- 01KaymoorNational Park Service · government · A1
Field notes & open questions
Discovery or enrichment; earliest report and independent corroboration remain under research. Confidence measures source provenance, not supernatural reality.