The purpose of this website is to preserve the heritage of John Nuttall: one of the early coal mining pioneers of the New River region of West Virginia…

 

John Nuttall was born on April 9, 1817 at Cupola Clough near Accrington Lancashire, England.  He died on September 17, 1897 at Dubree, Nuttall Mountain, West Virginia.  He is buried in the old graveyard on top of the cliffs of Nuttall Mountain.