Pomeroy Bend

Caption reads: "Abandoned Coal Tripple at Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. Evening on Pomeroy Bend. Code: F15, Class: Industry. Ident: Abandonded Coal Tipple. Location: Pomeroy. District 3." View of Pomeroy Bend and an anabanadoned coal tipple, along the Ohio River. Pomeroy is located in southeastern Ohio, along the Ohio River. It was named for Samuel Pomeroy, a Boston merchant who in 1804 purchased 262 acres of land on the site of the city. As early as 1770 coal was discovered near by, but it was 1809 before Nicholas Roosevelt opened a mine along the river to provide fuel for the steamboats about to appear on the Ohio. In 1832 the coal seams on the Samuel Pomeroy tract were opened and 1,000 bushels of coal were shipped down the river. The next year Pomeroy formed a company which, having acquired four miles of the river front, began to mine and distribute coal on a large scale. Prior to 1850 Pomeroy was the only town in Ohio shipping large quantities of coal down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. By 1880, when Ohio was the Nation’s third-ranking bituminous coal Sate, Meigs County, of which Pomeroy is the seat, stood fifth among some 30 coal producing counties