Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSON, WV (WOWK) – If you travel to the town of Williamson ... At the corner of East 2nd Avenue and Court Street sits the Coal House. The single-story structure was built in 1933 and ...

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 ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — West Virginia exports more coal to China than any other state and some producers have expressed serious concerns over a potential trade war. Countermeasures to ...