List Of Company Towns In The United States
This is a list of company towns in the United States. Towns listed in bold are still considered company towns today; other entries are former company towns. See the :Company towns in the United States for an unannotated list of articles. Listed by state Alabama * Acipco, Alabama, formerly owned by American Cast Iron Pipe Company * Aldrich, Alabama, formerly owned by Montevallo Coal Mining Company * Bayview, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. * Bemiston, Alabama, formerly owned by the Bemis Brothers Bag Company * Chickasaw, Alabama, formerly owned by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation * Docena, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. * Edgewater, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. * Fairfield, Alabama, (1910) originally "Corey", formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. * Kaulton, Alabama, owned by Kaul Lumber Co. * Margaret, Alabama established by Alabama Fuel and Iron Company * We ...
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Company Town
A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schools, markets and recreation facilities. They are usually bigger than a model village ("model" in the sense of an ideal to be emulated). Some company towns have had high ideals, but many have been regarded as controlling and/or exploitative. Others developed more or less in unplanned fashion, such as Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, United States, one of the oldest, which began as a Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company mining camp and mine site nine miles (14.5 km) from the nearest outside road. Overview Traditional settings for company towns were where extractive industries – coal, metal mines, lumber – had established a monopoly franchise. Dam sites and war-industry camps founded other company towns. Since company stores often had a monopoly in company t ...
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