Abandoned Coal Mining Towns Appalachia

One of the nicer coal camps still in existence. 10 000 in gold found metal detecting epic haul.

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Abandoned coal mining towns appalachia. Like most of west virginia the new river gorge area has a rich history of coal mining. Located in the new river gorge nuttallburg is one of the many. Abandoned by coal swallowed by drugs.

But appalachia has her own version of ghost towns and they are plentiful. Whether you re talking about the company towns built by big mining operations nomadic logging camps or family towns that grew around several. In fact during the industrial period more than 50 coal towns sprung up there bringing thousands of people to the gorge.

Those coal towns disappeared just as quickly as they appeared though leaving the ruins of the towns to be reclaimed by nature. The economy is thrives from the coal miniers and when it goes the economy will drop and this will become a ghost town. On today s abandoned america the pexped team heads to west virginia in search of a lost coal mining town called nuttallburg.

A drive through the derby coal camp outside of appalachia virginia. Ask jeff williams 214 910 views. Located in a remote section of the.

Fading towns dotting this part of appalachia. America s poorest white town. Jewell valley virginia was once a thriving coal camp community in buchanan county just across the tazewell county line but is now essentially a ghost town.

Appalachian coal mining towns wvminer85. Coal mining is a good thing even though environmentalist who don t even live in this area will tell you that it is the most awful thing ever when if we didn t have it that would be the worst thing to the people here. Creepy coal mining town i.

Frontier communities steeped in the myth of self reliance are now blighted by. Abandoned west america duration. Ask jeff williams duration.

At the mention of ghost towns that s the image that comes to mind the gold rush settlements of the old west. Abandoned frontier town 20 years later duration. In the early decades of the 1900s because coal companies owned most of central appalachia s towns mine guards essentially private paramilitary forces policed the region.

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