This building in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Kimball in southern West Virginia is unusual for two reasons: The town's World War Memorial, it is one of a few large memorials, as opposed to statues, to those who served in World War I, which its builders assumed would be THE one and on

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

One usually finds railroad tunnel entrances on remote mountainsides. But this one is right in town, in Kimball, a distressed Appalachian Mountains town in southern West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 201

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

Zion Church of the Heavenly Sunlight, an evangelical church in the distressed Appachian Mountains town of Kimball, West Virginia Physical description:. Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia

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

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

Once a showplace in the coal-mining town of Mullens, West Virginia, the Wyoming Hotel, designed by Alexander Mahood and built in 1918 by town banker and mine baron J.C. Sullivan and completely rebuilt soon afterward following a disastrous fire Physical description

The First Baptist Church, built in 1915 in Princeton, 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