Colliers is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States.

Throughout its existence, Colliers’ social life has revolved primarily around the local schools and churches.

The PCC&StL Railroad ran through this section of Colliers, which brought about the rise of a pool hall, a movie theater, and a mining company store, among other establishments.

[4] The train also stopped here, and as a result, Mine Hill saw the appearance of a restaurant, a boarding house, barbershops, and general stores.

[4] After the corporation closed, the steel industry was revived by the 1998 opening of the Mountaineer Metal Products company.

The typical school year lasted between four and six months to ensure that the children would be free to assist their parents during harvests, as well as to avoid the harsh conditions of winter.

There were several immigrants and African Americans living in the Logrow community, and their children could not attend school.

In 1953, the school was remodeled to add two new classrooms, a restroom, and cafeteria equipment, and to improve the plumbing, heating, and electrical systems of the building.

The building was further improved in the 1960s, adding fireproof doors at the top of the stairs, new desks, a gas boiler, and floor tiling in the classrooms.

[11] Also, the Colliers Primary School principal, JoEllen Connolly, was presented the national Terrel H. Bell Outstanding Leadership Award by the U.S. Department of Education.

On November 21, 1892, three workers, one of them only fifteen years old, were killed and seven were wounded when twenty-five kegs of powder exploded inside the mine.

[14] Two years later, on November 20, 1894, another explosion was caused in the mine by a new miner detonating an overcharged blast.

It is likely that the attacks were the work of company employees taking part in a strike that had begun in September 1913, but the assailants were not caught.

As public boxing matches were prohibited in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania, a relatively small town near the state line had to be used.

[15] On March 4, 1873, the bareknuckle boxing American lightweight championship match between Harry Hicken and Bryan Campbell took place at Colliers Station.

[16] In 1880, the bareknuckle boxing world heavyweight championship match between Paddy Ryan and Joe Goss was held in Colliers.

The match was prevented from occurring in Canada with extra border control and undercover detectives in America.

Joe Goss, the reigning champion, was much more experienced than Ryan, who had never fought a championship match before.

However, due to Goss’s advancing age, he was unable to continue the fight, leaving Ryan the victor.