Barrett is a small
unincorporated community
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and
coal town
A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to the site to work the mineral find. The company develops it and provides reside ...
with a population of 781 in
Boone County in the
U.S. state
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of
West Virginia
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.
Barrett lies along the
Pond Fork River. Barrett was named for Charles Barrett of Madison, who was an employee of the Cole & Crane Lumber Company, which had a mill there.
References
Unincorporated communities in Boone County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area
Coal towns in West Virginia
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