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Coketon, West Virginia
Coketon
is an
unincorporated community
and
coal town
in
Tucker County, West Virginia
,
United States
. Coketon
lies
at the
confluence
of Snyder
Run
and the
North Fork Blackwater River
south of
the town
of
Thomas
.
In the 1880s and 1890s, former
Senator
Henry
Gassaway Davis's
Davis Coal and Coke Company
, worked over 1,000
coke ovens
and 9
coal mines
within
one mile
of their
central office
at Coketon.