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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 211047, member: 4626&quot;]Well I can tell you that it can&#039;t possibly date earlier than 1863, since that&#039;s when West Viriginia became a state.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I found out why it&#039;s hard to find anything about Shaw, WV... the town&#039;s underwater now...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.shawwv.com/plaque100.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.shawwv.com/plaque100.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.shawwv.com/plaque100.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting... get the impression it was inhabited at least until about the 1940&#039;s or so (there&#039;s still a handful of people who can remember living there).&nbsp; Still trying to figure out why the town was abandoned and ended up under a lake... this site is the first reference I&#039;ve found that even acknowledges Shaw&#039;s former existance.</p><p><br /></p><p>eBay has another token, for 10 cents, from the same company and place: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/WV-Token-10-E-M-Norman-Co-Shaw-WV-Mineral-County_W0QQitemZ300092194076QQcategoryZ3458QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/WV-Token-10-E-M-Norman-Co-Shaw-WV-Mineral-County_W0QQitemZ300092194076QQcategoryZ3458QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/WV-Token-10-E-M-Norman-Co-Shaw-WV-Mineral-County_W0QQitemZ300092194076QQcategoryZ3458QQcmdZViewItem</a> (seller thinks it&#039;s a coal company token).</p><p><br /></p><p>Plot thickens... apparently where the town stood is now an artifical lake created in 1962... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennings_Randolph_Lake" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennings_Randolph_Lake" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennings_Randolph_Lake</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Still haven&#039;t found much on the town itself though.&nbsp; Have found that they did have a lumber and mining company there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway that at least narrows the token down to having been made between 1863 and 1962 (realistically prboably not more recent than the 1940&#039;s, as it appears the town was abandoned sometime around then).&nbsp; I&#039;m now <i>very</i> interested in trying to find out what happened to Shaw though... but having trouble finding out much about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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