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 ...

WILLIAMSON, WV ... town of Williamson, West Virginia, you’ll find a unique building in the vicinity of the Mingo County ...

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 ...