This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in West Virginia.
Coketon, West Virginia, is a former company town and coal mining facility of the Davis Coal & Coke Company.
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.
This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Maryland.
This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Kentucky.
This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Pennsylvania.
This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Ohio.
This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Indiana.
This is a gallery of abandoned and forgotten communities in Virginia.
Springton is a former coal camp developed by the Spring Coal Mining Company in Mercer County, West Virginia.
Tams is a former coal camp developed by the Gulf Smokeless Coal Company in Wyoming County, 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 is a former coal camp developed by the Brooklyn Coal Company along the New River in West Virginia.
Red Ash is a former coal camp developed by the Red Ash Coal & Coke Company along the New River in 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.
Exchange is a former stopping point along the Coal & Coke Railway and a ghost town in Braxton County, West Virginia.
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.
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 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.