Price Hill is an
unincorporated community 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 residen ...
in
Fayette and
Raleigh counties,
West Virginia, United States. Located on the outskirts of
Mount Hope along the banks of Dunloup Creek, it was built in the 1890s by the McKell Coal & Coke Company as a company town. Until the 1980s, the large Siltex Mine operated nearby.
References
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Fayette County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Raleigh County, West Virginia
Coal towns in West Virginia
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