Tag: Town

Once a strategically important city at the juncture of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, Cairo, Illinois, is in terminal decline after decades of racial turbulence. Cairo was founded by Darius Holbr…

Cass, West Virginia is a company town that was constructed by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (WVP&P) in 1901.…

Squeezed in between Beury Mountain and the New River with a population of just five, Thurmond, West Virginia served as an important stop for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad (C&O) before the adv…

Deerton, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Alger County, Michigan, was founded in 1882 when the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Railroad constructed a station for a lumbering camp. A post off…

The last update in the Coal Camp series from January unfolds deep within McDowell County, West Virginia, including Gary, Iaeger and War. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="560"] You know it …