The Carter Coal Company Store was a historic

company store A company store is a retail store selling a limited range of food, clothing and daily necessities to employees of a company. It is typical of a company town in a remote area where virtually everyone is employed by one firm, such as a coal mine. In ...

building located at Coalwood,

McDowell County, West Virginia McDowell County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state, State of West Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 19,111. Its county seat is Welch, West Virginia, Welch. McDowell County is the ...

. It was built by the

Carter Coal Company ''Carter v. Carter Coal Company'', 298 U.S. 238 (1936), is a United States Supreme Court decision interpreting the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, which permits the United States Congress to "regulate Commerce... among the seve ...

about 1912, and remodeled in 1922. The one-story brick building housed a store, company offices, and a

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1992. The building was demolished on March 29, 2008, by owner Alawest. The site is now a grassy plot with a gazebo.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Commercial buildings completed in 1922 Demolished buildings and structures in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in McDowell County, West Virginia Commercial buildings completed in 1912 Former post office buildings Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia 1912 establishments in West Virginia Company stores in the United States Demolished but still listed on the National Register of Historic Places {{McDowellCountyWV-NRHP-stub

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