Claremont is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and defunct coal camp in Fayette County,

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, United States. It was also known as Beechwood. As of 2022, little evidence of the former settlement remains. The camp was founded in 1887, and after the mine closed in the 1940s most of the residents moved away, although it hosted schools until the 1960s. A prep plant was built there in the 1980s but later abandoned.

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