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Dorothy, Raleigh County, WV. Original photo owned by the West Virginia State Archives.

Dorothy Company Store, Raleigh County, WV, 1915. Original photo owned by the West Virginia State Archives.
Thank you for posting this. Do you know what life was like there for miners, did they all wind up indebted to the company?
My father was born there in 1923, his father was a miner.