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For all those interested, I will try to describe some of the amenities that the town offered it's residents. This is from the stories that were told to me by some of the "older" residents that lived there.
Once you crossed the "junction bridge" going into Wheelwright, if you wanted to, you would never have to go out of Wheelwright again. There was a hospital, dentist office, drug store, clothing store, grocery store, hardware store, dry cleaning shop, carpentry shop, post office, service station, movie house, fountain ( combination ice cream store and mini resturant), pool hall, bowling alley, tennis courts, swimming pool, golf course, grade school, high school, TV repair shop, shoe shop and funeral home.
The town had it's own water service, sewer service and telephone service. The company employed carpenters, plumbers, painters and electricians.
The residents could call the "company grocery store" with their grocery order and the store had delivery service to your home. If you had plumbing problems, electrical problems or needed carpentry work or painting to be done, the company would send out the serivice workers to your home to do the work.
The company even employed the local youths during the summer to cut grass for the residents.
The company built the baseball/football field and the gymnasium for the high school. ( The company had a baseball team as did most of the coal companies, that also played on the baseball field.)
They built the equivalent of a 5 star hotel in the town (The old Club House ) and had one of the best resturants in the state in the dinning room.
You could literaly be born, reared and die, and never have to leave the town of Wheelwright. ( To pay for the work and any other purchase made in the town each miner was issued a card, similiar to a credit card, made of metal that had a number on it. Money was deducted each payday from the checks of the miners.) The town also had several churches of different denominations and the company sponsered the little league for the children in Wheelwright and surrounding areas.
This is as best as I can remeber from the stories that I heard from the "older' residents of the town.