First Presbyterian Church, Mullens, WV

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First Presbyterian Church, Mullens, WV
First Presbyterian Church, Mullens, WV

Mullens, WV (Wyoming County)

Mullens is located in eastern Wyoming County in southern West Virginia near the Wyoming-Raleigh county line. The city, which occupies a niche in the dissected Allegheny Plateau, is basically linear in shape, the corporate limits occupying an area approximately three miles in length and averaging one-half mile in width. The central business district is located near the confluence of the Guyandotte River and Slab Fork Creek.

The site of the city of Mullens was first settled by Andrew J. Mullins in 1894 when he purchased 69 acres of land around the confluence of Slab Fork and Guyandotte River. Mullins Cleared the land and built a cabin near the present intersection of First Street and Moran Avenue and established a small saw mill one-half mile up Slab Fork. Two years later Mullins and neighbors built a one-room school, post office, store and boarding house. The existence of vast timber and coal resources had been reported by Jed Hotchkiss in 1872 and by 1903 logging operations were becoming established at Amigo and Maben, three-to-four miles distance from the Mullins farm. The logging operation attracted people to the area, and by 1903 it was estimated that 250 people lived in the immediate vicinity.

The first coal mine in Wyoming County began operating in 1908 on the outskirts of the proposed historic district. (1)

First Presbyterian Church, (WM 366), 1954, Howard Avenue—one-story brick church; noncontributing. Architectural fim: Alexander and Alexander, Richmond, VA. (pg 14) (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

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