Part of the restored tipple and conveyor structure at Nuttallburg, West Virginia, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing na

Remnants of coke ovens at Nuttallburg, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing nation's industrial revolution Physical descr

An old coaling tower that once served Chesapeake & Ohio locomotives moving through Hinton, West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the C

Old mining complex in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Keystone in southern West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Caro

Picturesque but slender road to Nuttallburg, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing nation's industrial revolution Physical

An old coaling tower that once served Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomotives moving through Bluefield, West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection wit

Thurmond, a mostly deserted old Appalachian coal town in West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library

Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business in early 21st-Century West Virginia, this mill building, just down the track from the Cass Scenic Railroad station in Cass, was beset by two enormous fires, in 1978 and 1982 Physical description

This looks like a factory building, but it was the old hay barn in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsm