Ghost Towns in Iowa
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Buxton
Buxton was Iowa's most remarkable town - a coal mining community where Black and white workers were paid equally and lived in integrated neighborhoods...
Coal Valley
Iowa's coalfields created dozens of mining communities in the late 1800s. Coal Valley was one of many that died when the mines played out or when larg...
Copperton
Copperton was one of dozens of coal mining towns that dotted southern Iowa in the late 1800s. Like many, it thrived as long as the coal held out, then...