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    1. Where is it ????
    2. Doris Slaughter
    3. Hi Cousins and all, Crab Orchard borders Beckley city limits on WV Route 16, Sophia is the next town and to get to Coal City turn off on to a small county road in Sophia. This road will go through Coal City and then on to Ghent. Now I don't mind letting any one know where a place is, but here is a very expensive way to check out the small towns and coal camps which are not on most highway maps. I have sets for Wyoming, Raleigh and Mercer Counties. I grew up in that "neck of the woods" but these maps help me find the places I remembered. Also, strip mining and logging work has destroyed a lot of the old roads we travel when I was a child. The best map I have came from the West Virginia Division of Highways Department in Charleston, WV. Now the Chamber of Commerce sends out a Beckley map with a Raleigh County map on the back, but the other ones has more detail. when I got mine (about 10 years ago) they were only $1.00 per sheet, but it is best to write first for the cost of the County map requested. West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways State Capitol Complex, Building 5 Charleston, WV 25305 >> >One more thing: Where is Crab Orchard? I remember it from when I was young, >> >a long time ago!(like Ghent, Sophia an Coal City) But I can't remember >> >where it is. Thank you bunches, Carole Farley Eklund "Carole S. Eklund" <karo@trib.com> >

    03/13/1999 09:59:50