Glen Nell is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Washington Township,
Jackson County,
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
, United States. It is located west of
Wellston at the intersection of Glen Nell Road and Von-Glen Nell Road, at .
History
Glen Nell was founded as a
company town
A company town is a place where all or most of the stores and housing in the town are owned by the same company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schoo ...
for the Glen Nell Coal Company. The company mined
coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal i ...
at this location in a
slope mine called the "Glen Nell Mine", later called the "Phoenix Mine", opened about 1890.
[Jackson County, Ohio Genealogical Society. ]
Jackson County, Ohio: History and Families, 175th Anniversary, 1816-1991, Volume 1
'. Turner Publishing Company. 1991.[Ohio Inspector of Mines. ]
Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines, Issue 18
'. Industrial Commission, Department of Inspection, Division of Mines. 1893. The Company also operated two
drift mines
Drift mining is either the mining of an ore deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed. A drift mine is an underground mine in which the entry or access is above ...
nearby, called "Eclipse #1" and "Eclipse #2". As of 1893, there were 15 miners, 8 day laborers, one Superintendent, and one Mine Boss employed at the mine and a spur of the
CH&D Railroad leading to the location,
[ but the mine was "long abandoned" by 1921.][Conrey, G.W.. ]
Geology of Wayne County
'. Geological Survey of Ohio, Fourth Series, Bulletin, Volumes 24-25. Legislature of Ohio. 1921. Pg. 17.
There is a Wilcox Post Office listed as being "at the Glen Nell Coal Works",[ but no record of when it was established or discontinued.
]
References
Unincorporated communities in Jackson County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
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