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Helen's Run is not a town at all, but you would call it a community. It's a valley (WV term is hollow) that drains from the small community of Idamay. I have no idea how the area got its name. If its name comes from pioneer times, it would be cited in one of Glenn Lough's histories of the Marion county area.
Helen's Run encompasses a creek and a section of highway about 3 miles long. The road and creek intersect Rt 19 near Worthington, WV. In the 1920's the streetcar system from Farimont serviced the Carolina and Idamay area because of the coal mines working in that vicinity. Few peope had cars and the streetcar system was a very cheap and efficient method of trasportation.
The area was owned by a well respected coal baron from Fairmont named Jamison. His mansion stills stands on Fairmont's East Side, one of the few remaining. Mr. Jamison owned the town of Idamay and it was named after two of his daughters, Ida and May. Most of his mines were purchased by Consolidation Coal Company but the Idamay mine was purchased by Bethelem Steel Corporation and worked until the early 1970's. Mr. Jamison and Bethelem Steel took pride in their responsibility and improved the living conditions of the community. Idamay is a nice little scene as you top the hill and watch the land open before you. It hints of an earlier time when there were more people...Many of the brick buildings remain and are cared for, as is the town with its unique and typical mine duplex homes...All of it is a part of Helen's Run.
Helen's Run, on the left just before you reach Idamay, WV, is named after my grandmother, Helen Harley. Her husband was James Lincoln Harley. His father along with my grandmother's siblings, settled in the hollow on property at the mouth of Helen's Run, and just on the other side of the tunnel under the railroad. The Harley family farm is still occupied/owned by relatives
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Helen's Run
