rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I visited Cass WV. At FYC I told the story of our ride on the railroad
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-473004-1.html
Here are a few more pictures from our visit.
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Train station as seen from the store

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Company Store serves traditional purpose - separating people from their money, now as a gift shoppe

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Familly can rent house - but it would have been too expensive for just the two of us

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nice ones.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Very nice series. I understand the concept of the company store. Tennessee Ernie Ford said it very well, "I owe my soul to the Company Store." Because they sold to the company employees on credit and the employee rented the company house, and the Company deducted it all from your paycheck, but you never got ahead, "just another day older and deeper in debt," I am curious, are the little houses still there behind the big houses?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I didn't see any smaller ones. I'm thinking that more than one family lived in the larger ones. A small town in Pennsylvania - I'm blanking on the name right now - has been preserved as a coal mining company town. I recall their houses as being quite small.

After searching around on the Internet, I believe Eckley is the preserved coal mining town I was remembering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckley_Miners%27_Village
We were there in 1988, on our way back to Indiana after an early trip to Brooklyn so my in-laws could see their then one-year-old grand-daughter, at the time their only grandchild.