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Coal Miners and Coal Camps


Boarded-up homes in abandoned mining town, Twin Branch

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The Ford Motor Company owned this town but shut it down after miners attempted to unionize. About 1,000 men once worked there. Residents of neighboring towns salvaged what they could from the vacant homes.

Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott



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