West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

This unincorporated ... West Virginia is experiencing in the third decade of the 21st century what Iowa experienced in the last decade of the 20th century, when small towns shrunk, a farm-credit ...

That includes some Appalachian coal towns that have been remaking themselves ... another natural resource - the great outdoors. West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Brittany Patterson has more.