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==History==
==History==
The community was named for a lumber baron's wife, Ella Moore.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=256;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=228}}</ref>
The community of Ellamore began in 1902 after the Moore-Keppel Lumber Company bought about 29,640 acres of [[spruce]], [[Tsuga|hemlock]], and [[Populus|poplar]] timber in the region and established a band [[sawmill]] along the Middle Fork River. The community that grew around the sawmill was named for Ella, wife of Moore-Keppel's co-founder John B. Moore. Some 22 miles of railroad track were laid in the area to extract the 100,000 board feet of lumber that could be produced by the sawmill each day.

In 1917, Moore-Keppel formed a [[coal]] division, the Three Forks Coal Company, which operated a mine near [[Cassity, West Virginia]] that also utilized the logging railroad as a means to haul coal. The sawmill closed in 1946 due to the exhaustion of timber, although the railroad continued to be used by the [[coal mines]] until the late 1960s.


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Revision as of 04:42, 24 April 2016

Ellamore, West Virginia
Unincorporated community
CountryUnited States
StateWest Virginia
CountiesRandolph and Upshur
Elevation
1,857 ft (566 m)
Population
 • Total102
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
26267[1]
Area code(s)304 & 681
GNIS feature ID1554388[2]

Ellamore is an unincorporated community in Randolph and Upshur counties, West Virginia, United States. Ellamore is located on County Route 151 along the Middle Fork River 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Buckhannon. Ellamore had a post office, which closed on July 11, 2009.[3]

History

The community was named for a lumber baron's wife, Ella Moore.[4]

References

  1. ^ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  2. ^ "Ellamore". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  4. ^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 228.


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