Qualla: Pratt Historic District https://qualla.com/pratt-historic-district en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/pratt-historic-district-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pratt Historic District https://qualla.com/pratt-historic-district Pratt Historic District: Introduction https://qualla.com/pratt-historic-district/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mother Jones was eighty-four years old when she was held under house arrest in this West Virginia coal town. The year was 1913, the year of the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike, and the woman the United States Senate would later call the most dangerous woman in America was confined to a small wooden building here in Pratt during the worst of the labor war. The building where she was held is gone now - the Mother Jones Prison was eventually delisted from the National Register - but the district around it survives, sixty-seven contributing buildings that trace the arc of a Kanawha River town from the antebellum era through the coal boom that gave it its name and its troubles.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/pratt-historic-district-wp/dny1-pratt-historic-district-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pratt Historic District: From Saltworks to Coal Town https://qualla.com/pratt-historic-district/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. The oldest buildings in the Pratt Historic District date to the 1820s and 1830s - a reminder that this stretch of the Kanawha Valley was settled long before the coal companies arrived. The Samuel Hanna House, built somewhere between 1830 and 1840, has the simple massing of an ear...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/pratt-historic-district-wp/dny1-pratt-historic-district-from-saltworks-to-coal-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Pratt Historic District: A Town in Wood and Brick https://qualla.com/pratt-historic-district/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Pratt district is primarily residential, which is part of what makes it unusual. Most coal-town historic districts focus on the company store, the tipple, the operator's mansion. Pratt has those impulses too - the Boyer House from around 1910, the Weaver-Grose House from abou...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/1/pratt-historic-district-wp/dny1-pratt-historic-district-the-mother-jones-episode.mp3 0:06 4 full Pratt Historic District: Walking the District https://qualla.com/pratt-historic-district/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. Visitors who drive through Pratt today see a small West Virginia town on a curve of the Kanawha River, between Charleston and Montgomery, with the railroad still running along the bank. The Boyer House and the Old Town Hall, the Cooperage and the brick faces of the mining company...

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