CLINCHCO, VA
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Clincho, Virginia in Dickenson County was a coal camp built by the Clinchfield Coal Co.
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In this photo an old mine structure still stands in Clinchco.
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Clinchco is becoming depopulated.
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I know it's hard to see, but the red arrow points
to an outdoor bake oven used by Hungarian and Italian families to bake bread when they immigrated from
Europe to Clinchco.
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The tank building on the right,
at the bottom of the hill, was a UMWA union hall.
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Larger residential
structures in another section of Clinchco.
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Not all Clinchco homes are
dilapidated. This type of company house was probably shipped in on the train partially assembled by pre-fab
housing companies.
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Apparently, this was once the Clinchco post office. Now there
is a newer post office out by the main road.
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Clinchco coal miners memorial by the new post office.
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Probably foundations of a mine structure.
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Concrete piers that probably once supported a coal conveyor.
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