Abandoned Coal Ghost Town Down A Forgotten Gravel Road In West Virginia
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2023
- Abandoned West Virginia Coal Town Down A Forgotten Gravel Road to Springton in Mercer County just outside of Matoaka
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Most people don't realize the horrible and dangerous working conditions those miners endured until the miners stood united and unionized. Those miners and their families were victimized by coal barons whose greed kept them indebted to the company store. It was nothing short of early 20th century slavery. Abused and threatened by coal company management and superintendents "coal bosses". Anyway I'll get off my soap box. Excellent video you two!!
Live in Southern West Virginia Mercer County born and raised, what you do is not drive over the side. This ain’t a bit scary, go to downtown Philly or DC or Atlanta now that’s scary, I’ll take my Moutains and Hollars any day of the week. Coming back from Iaeger on 52 one day, a tree had fail across the road, 3 ole boys leaped out of their truck grabbed their saw and about in 6 minutes the tree was gone piled in the back of their truck and we was moving again! The absolute best folks in the world you’ll find in MacDowell County bar none! Love y’all 2 Young’ns like riding in the car with family listening to them talk, so enjoyable.
Being a rural delivery driver for UPS in WV this is normal.
That road going in is not a bad WVa road. It is actually in pretty good shape for a WVa road.
A book was written about this area by Charles Ward. It was called “Silk Stocking Row” and seems like it involved the real people that lived in the area. One such character named “High Pockets” and it largely told the story of the luxurious life of the bosses compared to the miner’s humble dwellings. Out of print and published around 1975. I had the book at one time. Very familiar with the area as a young person and later as a Home Health nurse.
I wish you had a drone so we could have seen the house too
You all are great. Melody, my wife, wouldn't be caught dead on this road, and if I took her on it, I wouldn't survive either. In late April we were in Tennessee and got lost in some back country roads tore up a rental car. It's a long crazy story, but I made the Loretta Lynn memorial concert my wife had enough. She watched it on TV in the hotel room. Love you two
"Precious memories how they ever flood my soul"...the words I recall from one of the many gospel songs, remembered from childhood in West Virginia. Looking at what once was... and can never be again... stirs the imagination with curiosity, sadness and a smile... knowing they were here for awhile. A memory it could be...of a conversation between you and me... about who we'd go to see... so long ago. Down the mountain roads we go... thru the hills of green... after the winter breeze and leafless trees.... have left the scene... giving way to summer days... and happy play... of children...knowing school... is weeks away. New life have taken form... the circle is complete... and every old building , church or graveyard along the way.... floods our soul with precious memories. Thanks for the tour... and the memories. Please know you are appreciated.
The brickwork is five rows of running bond interrupted by one row of Flemish bond. The back of the store still has its brickwork but has lost its roof. 100 year old brick walls can cave on you when they are not pointed up.
Going down in West Virginia is absolutely worse than going up . I love it .
Thank you Shane and Melody for sharing these precious long forgotten places in history. You both are right about saying this place will turn back into nature in a few years. You two are probably the last to document it.
Thank you showing us our adventurous home lands. I immediately thought/
I enjoy seeing these old places, makes me wonder what life was really like back in them old days, long gone... Thanks for all you do to film for us subscribers.
Always enjoy the videos and scenery you share.
Thanks for the ride along Melody & Shane. Love the old cornice masonry work around the peak of the old company store. A real time capsule. Was thinking all along the gravel road... imagine if the UPS guy had to go down the gravel road to deliver a $12 Ebay package to someone close to the company store. :) Thanks again
yesterday my son and I went hiking in Wilsons Creek (NC) Area, and drove miles on NC-90 looking at Table Rock and Hawksbill Mtns. west of us....hard dirt road.
Great road trip, thank you Melody and Shane. It is important that you're recording all these places!
Thank you for another great video! I lived in Mercer County, and I have many relatives in Wyoming County, so I've traveled many a time on roads like that one. I miss my WV home, (I'm in OH now) but these road trips of yours warms my heart!! (Y'all make me chuckle a lot, too, with your comments. Lol) ❤❤
Thank you for posting this. I will need to check this out on a future trip.
Road tripping on back roads seeing the real inner America, way to travel. You can get out and touch the country.Taste it.