All, I did not mention but most of those towns are becoming ghost towns. The houses and buildings are rotting and caving in. There are some new homes in some areas. I would guess the population generally was declining. Coal mining takes a lot less miners. Oceana was the most prosperious I saw. Welch and Bradshaw looked very poor. What was strange was that I saw no family cemeteries. There is one large cemetery in Oceana, I think. -eddie