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	EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Company Town
		Although company towns were most closely associated with the coal mining industry it should be noted that they existed in a number of other industries.
		The prevalence of company towns, at least in the coal industry, was related to the settlement of regions where mines were developed.
		The relationship between employees and owners in company towns could be contentious and this in turn generated a series of complaints that were surprisingly similar across time.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/boyd.company.town (1555 words)

	Cape Town hotels, cape town accommodation, Luxury hotels Cape Town, South Africa
		With Cape Town's spectacular geography and its amazing vibe it is not hard to see why it is consistently voted amongst the world's best cities.
		Overlooking Cape Town’s spectacular Camps Bay beach, The Bay combines the charm of a country hotel with the sophistication of a truly international resort.
		The PortsWood Hotel is the mainstay of one of the most spectacular views in the world: from Table Mountain, across the Atlantic and Robben Island, over the aureate beaches in the distance and around to where Signal Hill meets the mountain again.
	www.cybercapetown.com (713 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Company town
		A company town is a town or city in which all or almost all real estate, buildings (both residential and commercial), utilities, hospitals, small businesses such as grocery stores and gas stations, and other necessities or luxuries of life within its borders are owned by a single company.
		Company towns were formed by the transcontinental railroads, which bought tracts of land flanking their right-of-way before deciding where to site stations.
		Other times, a town may not officially be a company town, but it may be a town where the majority of citizens are employed by a single company, thus creating a similar situation to a company town (especially in regard to the town's economy).
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Company_town (598 words)

	Eclipse Company Town
		The Eclipse Company Town is located 2 miles north of Athens and Ohio University off U.S. Route 33 and Johnson Road near The Plains, Ohio, and right on the Hockhocking-Adena Bikeway.
		The Eclipse Company Town was built by the Hocking Valley Coal Company between 1900 and 1902.
		In 1997, Eclipse, Ltd. was formed by five friends who decided to take on restoration of the company town because of their interest in historic preservation, local history, and the Hockhocking-Adena Bike Path, which runs adjacent to the company town.
	www.littlecitiesofblackdiamonds.org /Towns/Eclipse/eclipse.htm (562 words)

	San Antonio Current - Screens Company town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		The town's second-greatest natural resource after lumber, Libby vermiculite contained unusually high amounts of tremolite asbestos, a highly toxic form of the mineral because it easily becomes airborne in small particles.
		Company documents from the '70s, when Grace owned the facility, show that the East-Coast company was aware that it was incurring an immeasurable liability by not notifying its employees of the risk.
		One man recalls that after the annual company physical, the report always came back "no change," which made it all the more shocking when an independent, out-of-town doctor told him he had five to seven years to live because so little was left of his lungs.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14511756&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6 (1249 words)

	McCloud River Lumber Company
		McCloud was a true company town, as everything in the town was owned by the lumber company and provided for the exclusive use of its employees.
		The company had extensive logging operations that produced the logs needed to keep the sawmill running, along with an extensive railroad system connecting the woods operations with the mill.
		Current residents of each structure in town got the first chance to buy the house they lived in, and a community services district was organized to take over the utilities that the town was dependant on.
	www.trainweb.org /mccloudrails/LumberCompany.html (1134 words)

	A Company Town
		The coal company took the initiative and secured a tract of land on a hillside and cut out three streets and parceled out lots.
		Not only did the coal company provide the miners with jobs and a place to live - there was also a company-owned store that sold everything imaginable.
		The Company Store, as it was called, sold food, vegetables, meats, clothing, tools, dry goods, and just about anything a family needed.
	www.briscar.com /minetown.htm (618 words)

	Metropolis Feature: Company Town
		As actual cities are being outstripped by prosperous suburbs, architects and space planners are talking about building the buzz of city streets right into their office projects, hoping to humanize the workplace and break down corporate mind-sets.
		Many companies slap the term "city" on what are essentially traditional configurations.
		Company officials had intended to centralize Nortel's Toronto operations and suddenly they saw a chance to do so without building or leasing a new structure.
	www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0298/fe98nort.htm (2985 words)

	CBC Radio \| The Sunday Edition \| No Company Town: The Story of Murdochville
		Murdochville was a company town set up in the mountains of the Gaspe Peninsula, about 7 hours drive east of Quebec City.
		Today, we are witnessing the slow death of one of the last company towns in Canada, a town created by and for one employer.
		The company and government knew the Steelworkers had the majority and there was going to be a union there.
	www.cbc.ca /thesundayedition/features/murdochville.html (4593 words)

	A company town in Italy laments its namesake's fall - The Boston Globe
		The scandal erupted last month when the company admitted that a bank account in one of its Cayman Island subsidiaries that supposedly contained nearly $5 billion did not exist.
		At the tiny office of Confconsumatori, a consumer advocate association whose national headquarters are based in Parma, representatives have been flooded with calls from people wanting to know what to do with their Parmalat bonds and whether they have lost their savings.
		At the Credito Cooperativo di Signa bank in Signa, a small town in the heart of Tuscany, a bank executive, Filippo Cappacioli, says many of his clients have lost half their savings and in some cases, almost their entire savings.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/01/18/a_company_town_in_italy_laments_its_namesakes_fall (987 words)

	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - fedgazette April 1993 - When a Company Town Loses Its Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Mayry is referring to the town of Newberry and the closing of a state mental health center, which meant the loss of its last 270 jobs in the fall of 1992.
		While many small cities and towns across the Ninth District are familiar with the economic hardship caused by a decline in a natural resource-based industry like agriculture or mining, other communities must also struggle with more localized economic crises, such as plant closings or mass layoffs.
		Those companies prefer California, its climate and their proximity to high-tech research facilities, Rich says he was told.
	woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us /pubs/fedgaz/93-04/companytown.cfm?js=0 (1531 words)

	Company towns gone -- or are they?
		To provide a work force for their operations, companies needed to house employees and provide all the services and sometimes the amenities available in towns and cities too far for those workers to travel to.
		Company towns die or are sold because the mine or mill that supported them closed, or because civilization moved close enough that workers could find places to live on their own.
		In a sense, the company town is being reconfigured for a new era, partly as a perk to attract and retain employees (and, cynics might argue, to squeeze more work out of them).
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /virgin/304301_virgin20.html?source=rss (854 words)

	About the Town House Company
		The company's objective is the continued development and management of deluxe hotels that provide a genuine, personal and memorable experience.
		Extraordinary town house properties such as The Bonham, Channings, The Howard and The Edinburgh Residence in Edinburgh have established The Town House Company as an organisation that demands and achieves excellence.
		The company both encourages and takes an active role in ensuring that all staff members have the strong senses of belonging, pride and importance needed to enhance their achievements as individuals and as members of a team.
	www.townhousecompany.com /about_us (270 words)

	Roslyn - Washington Ghost Town
		A rather dainty name for a coal mining town but Roslyn was the name chosen by a Logan M. Gullitt who platted it and named it after a sweetheart in a Delaware town of that name.
		The company set about hiring miners for the mines and the first train load consisted mostly of immigrants from Italy, Austria and Slavic countries.
		Being a company town, there were restrictions not too pleasing to the population.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/wa/roslyn.html (204 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Company town carved from old growth faces uncertain future
		But in the town, mistrust of whether it would be a good thing for anybody besides Pacific Lumber, or more specifically Maxxam, runs as deeply as contempt for environmentalists.
		Other former company towns, such as the former sugar processing town of Spreckels in the Salinas Valley and Boulder City, Nev., created by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to house Hoover Dam workers, have thrived without their original owners.
		The company is also renovating the site of one of its old mills into a light industrial park it hopes would attract other businesses, such as a brewery.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20061230-1522-ca-timbertownsale.html (1170 words)

	Somerset County hospital is epicenter of an old coal company town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		But while the company's presence in Windber faded -- it now is known as the Berwind Group and occupies just an office in town -- the medical center has grown and evolved.
		The medical center also is an influential force in residents' lives, encouraging other companies to relocate to the town, arranging mentoring relationships among employees and high school students, and offering the public the use of its facilities.
		Berwind leaders wanted Windber to be the model of innovation and set a standard for other company towns, so architects laid extra-wide streets and built homes that had access to a central heating system.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04013/260747.stm (980 words)

	Town & Country Financial Corporation - About Us
		Driving the continued growth and success of the company are David Kirschner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Charles (Chuck) Sommers, President and Chief Operating Officer.
		In 1967, having relocated to Springfield, Henry was one of five local businessmen who purchased a substantial amount of stock in Town and Country Bank of Springfield and immediately took on the role as President.
		Town and Country Financial Corporation, under Henry’s leadership, was an early adopter of the holding company structure and subsequently acquired Farmers State Bank of Buffalo, Bank of Palmyra, Logan County Bank of Lincoln, and a branch of Associated Bank in Mt. Zion.
	www.townandcountrybank.com /About/History.asp (619 words)

	RJ Eskow: Wal-Mart: A 'Company Store' for the GOP's 'Company Town' America - The Huffington Post
		In the case of the mining towns, no other retailers were allowed to come in and do business in the community.
		According to the Center for a Changing Workforce, less than 40% of Wal-Mart employees were covered in 2003 in 2005, and the company acknowledges its coverage is "expensive," average 30% of income for a typical worker with a family of four.
		The Fast Company author, Charles Fishman, raises the specter of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. (A&P), the grocery store chain whose dominance of the market in the 1920's and 30's led to many of today's anti-predatory pricing laws.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /rj-eskow/walmart-a-company-sto_b_11012.html (867 words)

	Saltville VA -- A Company Town -- Museum of the Middle Appalachians Exhibit
		The Buena Vista Plaster Company, was purchased by the U.S. Gypsum Company.
		A pictorial history of the company town is on display at the Museum of the Middle
		The company announced in July of 1970, that it would not be able to meet new EPA water pollution standards and would close the plant.
	www.museum-mid-app.org /company-town.htm (398 words)

	Pie Town Television Productions: Company Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		And Pie Town is expanding its portfolio to other networks-it recently produced a pilot for Lifetime called ''Trading Places,'' which gives two women living different lives the opportunity to trade places for two days.
		The production company is also in development with the Game Show Network for the first time, with a cross-country race show tentatively called ''Freeloaders,'' which has not yet been picked up.
		Pie Town is also producing two shows for the Food Network, including ''Firehouse Cooking,'' a behind-the-scenes look at why firefighters are some of the best chefs and how food plays a role in their jobs.
	www.pietown.tv /press/ptpress5.html (733 words)

	Company Town, Losing a Landlord, Seeks a Mate - New York Times
		It is the flag of the Pacific Lumber Company, which, as it happens, has owned the entirety of Scotia, all 500 acres of it, for 140 years: its homes, its streets, its shops and even its two churches.
		While this lovely little town has one of everything — a single supermarket, a single restaurant, and a single doctor — what is more notable is what it lacks.
		And as all residents of Scotia, population 800, must be employees of or consultants for the company or work in the town's businesses, the populace has another enviable attribute: almost everyone, except retirees, has a job.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/07/06/us/06scotia.html?ex=1309838400&en=901f6068bbd51ea9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (917 words)

	Ellen Land-Weber Exhibit: Company Town
		Surrounded by a landscape of exceptional beauty, an air of well-being and timelessness was evident to anyone who walked around the town or entered into conversation with a resident.
		To pay for the junk bonds issued to purchase the company, Pacific Lumber changed its forestry practices--once praised by environmentalists--greatly accelerating cutting the ancient forests on its lands.
		Since then the company has been the focus of considerable controversy and the future of the community is uncertain.
	www.humboldt.edu /~eel1/exhibit/show/scotia/scotiahp.html (240 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Memories of a company town
		The land for the town was purchased in 1905 by Utah Copper Co., just two years after that company was organized by Daniel C. Jackling.
		Named for President James A. Garfield, the town was laid out "like the spokes of a wagon wheel cut in half," says Lee Romrell, who was born there.
		A natural rock formation west of town was called Lion's Head by the older folks, and Dog's Head by the time Romrell came along.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600155105,00.html (1549 words)

	The Yale Herald - October 10, 2003 - New Haven: Company town or union stronghold? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		In addition, the primaries came at the height of the strike as tensions between the University and the unions were coming to a head.
		In Union Town, is it politically risky to be sympathetic to Yale?
		On the question of New Haven as a company town, Morand was adamant that Yale cannot be considered the only prominent contributor to the job market, citing the booming biotech industries in nearby towns as equally important employers.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2422 (2412 words)

	Travel: Company town reborn
		Testifying to the town's prosperity, there were three temporary-employment agencies in Market's four or so blocks late last month and just four empty storefronts.
		Demonstrating and reinforcing the fact that this is a company town, a free shuttle runs a loop from a satellite parking lot to the museum and on to a stop near Market Street.
		Also in the cemetery is Ernie Davis, a town native who won the Heisman Trophy while starring at Syracuse University.
	www.sptimes.com /News/100800/Travel/Company_town_reborn.shtml (1363 words)

	CBC Radio \| Ideas \| Features \| A Literary Atlas of Canada - The Company Town
		The Hudson’s Bay Company of Adventurers established the very foundations of the country on the back of its lucrative hat and felt business—and with it some of our worst social and political habits.
		Talk to Inuit, and many will still point to the land and describe it as 'the Company Store.' The truth about life in Canada is that you have to know what you’re looking for and where to find it.
		Company Town by Michael Turner, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1991.
	www.cbc.ca /ideas/features/literary_atlas/company_town.html (845 words)

	delawareonline ¦ The News Journal ¦ North to Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		In Delaware, we know a thing or two about company towns but few places I've ever been top Deadhorse and the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay.
		From the video we watched before the tour, we learned that the oil companies have self contained towns within towns, complete with "healthy" meals (That was their expression, not mind) excercise rooms and housing.
		One guy told me he signed up for five weeks, he was staying five weeks and he wouldn't stay another day even though they had already asked him to.
	www.delawareonline.com /blogs/2006/08/company-town.html (740 words)

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