A history of Kimball,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Kimball from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Kimball mining disaster took place on July 18, 1919, at the Carswell coal mine in Kimball, killing six miners. Initial reports said that 221 men had been killed, but they were trapped by the explosion. A rescue party was able to dig through the wreckage, allowing 215 to return alive to the surface.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Kimball’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewKimball, West Virginia, 1935: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Kimball
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1990s
3 historic places in Kimball
3 places in Kimball are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Listed 1992Houston Coal Company StoreListed 1993World War MemorialListed 2026Henrietta Dismukes Hospital Nurses HomeThen & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Kimball, West Virginia (1935) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.