These small 'towns' were mainly cluster homes around old mine sites. As the need for Iron ore was replaced by more modern Great Lakes shipping, the old ore towns were no longer needed. Automobiles killed most of these place too, you no longer needed post offices and you can trace the decline by when some of the post offices closed or were combined. Many names remain but the exact locations are harder to fine. Wilkesville once had a college in the early days. Nearby were Clarion, Hawk, Oreton with Minerton farther south and a few others such as Summit station very near Dundas. The Oreton tunnel can be seen along the road. Most of these towns were near a railroad station and McArthur was one of the last places to get a train line. I can recall when they tore down Oreton and McArthur train stations in the 1960s, only the concrete bases remain. North of McArthur where the Ford garage is, was a series of old mine shanties where the workers live during the week, a source told me that when there wasn't any work there, the men would go to Senecaville to work. A few decades later, the country stores disappeared, the only remains of Ratcliffsburg and it's country store is a road sign. I bought penny candy from Russell Pickney 'Pink' Perry and his wife Flora, the store and house have fallen down in the last 35 years. Pink Perry was blind but tended to his hogs by following ropes out to the barn. He pumped gas by counting the 'dings' the gravity pumps made so he could charge the correct amount. The old store can still be seen along route 50 East about 2 miles from McArthur.