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COALWOOD, WV (550 words) |
 | COALWOOD, WV The model company town of Coalwood was constructed during the 1905-12 years by the Carter Coal and Coke Co. That company operated the mines and town at Coalwood until Consolidation Coal Co. purchased the operation (along with neighboring Caretta) in 1922. |
| Incredibly, Coalwood was still a company town at this point, with the homes being rented to the miners and their families. |
| The preparation plant was demolished in the 1990s, and Coalwood seemed destined to follow the pattern of declining coal camps with exhausted coal reserves and little prospects for the future. |
| Coalwood, WV Today--Home of the Rocket Boys from the October Sky movie, the October Sky book and the Rocket Boys book, ... (840 words) |
| Coalwood, WV Today--Home of the Rocket Boys from the October Sky movie, the October Sky book and the Rocket Boys book, by Homer H. Hickam |
| I was curious to see what the real Coalwood, WV is like today. |
| There is a stretch of houses along the main road (WV 16), then the main part of town extends back up the hollow from there; maybe 100 houses total today. |
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