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Beury Monument

New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia
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The first New River Smokeless Coal was mined and shipped from the Fire Creek Seam at Quinnimont by Joseph Lawton Beury in 1873, and his coal associates in the New River District later erected a memorial to him.
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