West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

and the American South to begin work in the coalfields of West Virginia, where mines were opened in remote areas that often lacked existing towns. Coal companies established towns and imposed a ...

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WILLIAMSON, WV (WOWK) – If you travel to the town of Williamson ... At the corner of East 2nd Avenue and Court Street sits ...

With massive coal reserves acting as a natural charcoal filter, West Virginia used to be famous for its well and spring water. "We had the best darn water in the world," Prenter Hollow ...

One former Washington coal mining town saw a 12% increase in employment — twice the national average — when it invested in energy-efficiency initiatives following the departure of the coal ...