The story of a forgotten America.

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Davis General Store
Community / Kentucky

This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Kentucky.



New Hampden
Community / Virginia

This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Virginia.



Kline
Community / West Virginia

This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in West Virginia.



Coketon, West Virginia
Community / West Virginia

Coketon, West Virginia, is a former company town and coal mining facility of the Davis Coal & Coke Company.



8th Street District
Community / Illinois

Located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers surrounded by levees, Cairo, Illinois was strategically important during the Civil War but today is one of the poorest cities in the nation after decades of racial turbulence.



Sang Run
Community / Maryland

This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Maryland.



McKeesport House
Community / Pennsylvania

This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Pennsylvania.



Negley Company Store
Community / Ohio

This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Ohio.



Downtown Gary - Along Washington Street
Community / Indiana

This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Indiana.



Springton, West Virginia
Community / West Virginia

Springton is a former coal camp developed by the Spring Coal Mining Company in Mercer County, West Virginia.



Tams, West Virginia
Community / West Virginia

Tams is a former coal camp developed by the Gulf Smokeless Coal Company in Wyoming County, West Virginia.



Nuttallburg Coal Tipple
Community / West Virginia

Nuttallburg, located along the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia, was a coal mining venture that was spawned out of England-born entrepreneur John Nuttall.



Brooklyn
Community / West Virginia

Brooklyn is a former coal camp developed by the Brooklyn Coal Company along the New River in West Virginia.



Community / West Virginia

Red Ash is a former coal camp developed by the Red Ash Coal & Coke Company along the New River in West Virginia.



Algoma Company Store
Community / West Virginia

Algoma, West Virginia is a former company town developed by the Algoma Coal & Coke Company.



Kay Moor
Community / West Virginia

Kay Moor, West Virginia is a former Low Moor Iron company town. At its height, Kay Moor featured a coal mine and processing plant. Kay Moor was named for James Kay, a Low Moor Iron employee whose task was to construct the town at the base of the mountain.



Community / West Virginia

Exchange is a former stopping point along the Coal & Coke Railway and a ghost town in Braxton County, West Virginia.



Palmer Park Apartment Buildings
Community / Michigan

The Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District is located in the Palmer Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, and is well regarded for its ornate and varied examples of apartment buildings. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 with a boundary increase in 2005.



Foster Theater
Community / Ohio

Youngstown, Ohio is the county seat of Mahoning County and is named for John Young, an early settler from New York. The city prospered for decades under heavy industrialization, chiefly steel mills. Closure of the mills in the 1970s led to major population losses and a sharp increase in poverty.



Caretta
Community / West Virginia

Caretta is a former company town in McDowell County, West Virginia. It is named after the transposed syllables of Mrs. Etta Carter, the wife of George Lafayette Carter, who founded Carter Coal.



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