Public Service Co. building 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 Crozer Coal

The Elkhorn Church of God 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 Crozer Coal a

Commercial block in the distressed Appalachian town of Northfork, 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

Buildings along the railroad line through 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 Collec

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

Main Street commercial building in Bramwell, known as the "Millionaires' Town in West Virginia's Southern Coalfields," which extended for 40 miles from Bramwell, which, it is said, once housed more millionaires per capita than any other town in America in the late 1800s Physical description: 1 photo

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

Bramwell, West Virginia, is a former prosperous coal town that once boasted the largest number of millionaires, per capita, in the United States, and there are plenty of their fine homes remaining to prove it. But this structure in Bramwell is not one of them. Judging by its paint job, one would be

Masonic Lodge No. 124 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. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015