Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blackhorse, West Virginia

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The result was delete. czar 05:45, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Blackhorse, West Virginia

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I can find a few scattered passing mentions about this, but I'm not convinced they rise up to being notable. Not in Hamill Kenny's book of WV place names. Newspapers.com brings up two things for this, both from the 1880s: a drunk person falling into the river and drowning at Blackhorse landing, and some railroad work going on near "the Blackhorse works". This says Black Horse was a log house used as a tavern and ferry, and that the site was by then a brickworks. The other mentions in that book appear to be passing mentions to the brickworks. Not in this county history book under either "Blackhorse" or "Black Horse". I can only get a tiny snippet of this, but it also seems to be referring to a tavern that became a brickworks. Evidently an old railroad feature there, as it appears in a listing directory. Passing mention here, stating that it was a brickworks in New Cumberland, West Virginia. Found several other references to the brickworks, but none seem to be too in-depth.

It's possible that others can find significant coverage for what is apparently an old brickworks (likely easier know that the true nature of this site has been determined), but I'm not convinced of notability here. Hog Farm _Talk 04:45, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 04:45, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 04:45, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Hog Farm has put at least 20 times more time researching this than the spammer who mass-created it with false content, no reason to waste anyone else's. Reywas92^Talk 05:27, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
According to a 2007 Ohio River Guidebook it was the site of The Black Horse Tavern in 1814. According to the 1963 History of Hancock County: Virginia and West Virginia by Jack Welch and a 1901 issue of Clay Record, it was then the site of The Black Horse Works founded in 1844 by James and William Porter, who sold it to the American Sewer Pipe Company in 1889. The ASPC plant and this history was also recorded in the 1905 West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, which is in turn referenced by the 1909 History of the Clay-working Industry in the United States. It's a bit thin for a standalone article, because (except for some minor partership changes from an 1879 History of the Pan-handle) I cannot get past the 2 sentences that I just wrote here. I cannot find a way to expand via the companies or the Porters. This is made especially difficult because there were multiple companies by this and the name the American Clay Manufacturing Company, and they had a trademark dispute. No-one has really pieced together the history for us. I do not see a way to refactor this into a stub with scope for expansion beyond those 2 sentences. Uncle G (talk) 10:44, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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