Found near Wanda, found in the same location as the Peck's Mill tag and the Hutchenson bottle just below Ethel Hollow. Kenny found hundreds of bottles in this location. Found just a couple hundred feet from the mouth of a mine at the site of an old house.
Exhibition
Life in the Coal Camps
Interpretative Labels
Label Type
Cultural/Historical Context
Label
Company Scrip
In most coal operations, miners were not paid in US dollars, but rather in
company money, called scrip. Usually scrip was only redeemable at the
company store, preventing miners from spending money outside the company
town. Although illegal in the state of West Virginia, most coal companies
continued to use scrip to pay their miners until the 1950s.
collection of Kenneth King
