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

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

Fall scene near Babcock State Park in Fayette County, 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 of

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

Fall scene along U.S. Highway 60 in Fayette County, 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 of C

Rural scene near Cass, 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, Prints and Photograp

Row of homes along the dirt Pearly Road in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Elkhorn in southern West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Elkhorn was once a "coal camp," a company mining town, in a deep hollow along Elkhorn Creek operated by the

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

Dunloup Falls, a roadside waterfall with a drop of 20 feet on the creek of the same name, near the largely abandoned old coal town of Thurmond in Fayette County, West Virginia. Dunloup Creek feeds the New River Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M.