Eckman, West Virginia


Eckman is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia. Eckman is located along U.S. Route 52 to the west of the city of Keystone. Eckman used to be known as Shawnee Camp. At Shawnee Camp, miner John Hardy reportedly murdered a man in a gambling dispute. His death was memorialized in the popular folk song, “John Hardy.”