- List of company towns
This is a List of company towns.
Towns listed in bold are still considered company towns today; other entries are former company towns. See for an unannotated list of articles.
Europe
Belgium
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Louvain-la-Neuve , home of theUniversité Catholique de Louvain France
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Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne ), home of the chocolate factory owned by the Menier Family
*Sochaux -Montbéliard (Doubs ), home ofPeugeot
*Villeneuvette (Hérault ), mill town owned by Jules MaistreIreland
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Rochfortbridge (County Westmeath ), built by public company OPW in the 1840s as part of famine relief on the site of an original village and rebuilt 110 years later by Bord na Móna during the 1950s for its employees, the more modern phase being designed by architect Frank Gibney.Denmark
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Billund , home ofLEGO 's International Headquarters.Germany
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Leverkusen , home of theBayer AG (?)
*Wolfsburg , built to houseVolkswagen workersItaly
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San Donato Milanese , home of theENI . Built byEnrico Mattei for company's workers, the town is centered on a neighborhood called "Metanopoli" (Methanopolis).Transnistria (Moldova)
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Dnestrovsk , developed byMoldavskaya GRES Netherlands
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Batadorp ,Best municipality, developed byBata Shoes
*Heveadorp ,Renkum municipality, developed byHevea Shoes Russia
Non-ferrous metal industry (the plants there are mostly owned by
Norilsk Nickel ):
*Norilsk
*Monchegorsk
*Zapolyarny
*Nikel Iron mining:
*Kovdor
*Olenegorsk Non-metal mineral extraction and processing:
*Apatity
*Kirovsk Oil and gas:
*Surgut
*Nizhnevartovsk
*Nefteyugansk
*Novy Urengoy Petrochemical industry:
*Kstovo
*Kirishi Russian writers and politicians commonly use the expression "градообразуюшее предприятие" ("gradoobrazuyushchee predpriyatie", literally 'the enterprise that has created the town') to refer to the industrial facility - these days often part of a larger company such as
LUKOIL orNorilsk Nickel - that is the city's main employer and the main source of funding for the city's budget.United Kingdom
North America
Canada
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Anyox, British Columbia , a now-abandoned smelter town onObservatory Inlet , near the mouth of theNass River .
*Arvida or now Jonquiere, Quebec, owned byAlcan
*Batawa, Ontario owned by Bata
*Bralorne, British Columbia , and nearbyPioneer Mine, British Columbia ; both famous gold mining towns; Bralorne's third townsite is also known asBradian
* Bridge River aka Bridge River Townsite, now South Shalalth, aBritish Columbia model village developed as part of theBridge River Power Project and now mostly depopulated.
*Britannia Beach, British Columbia - a semi-abandoned copper and gold mine and crushing plant near Squamish
* Camp McKinney - gold, nearRock Creek, British Columbia
*Clayburn, British Columbia - brick clay mine and brick kiln
*Copper Moutain, British Columbia - copper, nearPrinceton, British Columbia , abandoned 1960s
*Espanola, Ontario , until 1958 owned by the paper mill.
*Elsa, Yukon
*Fermont, Quebec
*Flin Flon ,Manitoba (andSaskatchewan ), owned byHudson Bay Mining and Smelting (HBMS)
*Fort Vancouver and other formerHudson's Bay Company trading posts-cum-towns in thePacific Northwest . Others include Colville, Victoria BC, Fort Langley BC, Hope BC and more.
* Fraser Mills, British Columbia, now part of Coquitlam but originally owned byCrown Zellerbach (the company President was the mayor, by default and acclamation). Most workers in Fraser Mills did not live in the "village" (as incorporated) but in nearby Maillardville
*Gold River, British Columbia - now incorporated
*Government Cannery, British Columbia
*Harmac, British Columbia - pulp mill, nearNanaimo, British Columbia
*Keno City, Yukon
*Kimberley, British Columbia , now incorporated
*Kitimat, British Columbia , based around an aluminum smelter built byAlcoa 's Canadian subsidiary Alcan. Also nearby is Kemano which accompanies the Kemano powerhouse of theNechako Diversion
*Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador developed by theIron Ore Company of Canada
* Logan Lake - copper mine
*Nanisivik, Nunavut , built to support a lead-zinc mine and abandoned after the mine's closure in 2002.
*Nitinat, British Columbia , nearYoubou, British Columbia - former company town ofCrown Zellerbach , a forestry company
*Ocean Falls, British Columbia , a now-abandoned pulp mill town on the central BC Coast
*Port Mellon, British Columbia , a pulp mill and town on the east shore of Howe Sound near the Langdale ferry terminal, which is near Sechelt
*Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador
*Woodfibre, British Columbia a pulp mill town on the east shore ofHowe Sound near Squamish
*Walkerville, Ontario a distillery on the south shore of theDetroit River , founded byHiram Walker Dominican Republic
* La Romana, primarily owned by the Central Romana Corporation (part of the Fanjul sugar and real estate empire).
United States
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Acipco, Alabama , formerly owned byAmerican Cast Iron Pipe Co.
*Ajo, Arizona
*Alcoa, Tennessee , owned byAlcoa
*Bagdad, Arizona , owned byPhelps Dodge Corporation
*Ambridge, Pennsylvania , Former home ofAmerican Bridge Company
*Bayview, Alabama , formerly owned byTennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
*Boulder City, Nevada , built and owned by theUnited States Bureau of Reclamation
*Bryce Canyon City, Utah , built and owned by Ruby's Inn and the Syrett family, owners of Ruby's Inn
*Camden, Texas , owned by theW.T. Carter & Brother Lumber Company and its successors
*Cass, West Virginia , founded in 1901 forWest Virginia Pulp and Paper Company logging the nearby mountains
*Chester, California
*Clarkdale, Arizona , built, named for, and formerly owned by SenatorWilliam A. Clark 's United Verde Copper Company
*Cohoes, New York , formerly owned byHarmony Mills
*Coalwood, West Virginia , formerly owned by the Olga Coal Company
*Docena, Alabama , formerly owned byTennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
*Durango, Colorado , organized in 1880 by theDenver and Rio Grande Railroad
*Edgewater, Alabama , formerly owned byTennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
*Empire, Nevada , owned byUnited States Gypsum Company
*Fairfield, Alabama , (1910) originally "Corey", formerly owned byTennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
*Ford City, Pennsylvania , organized in 1887 byPPG Industries
*Gary, West Virginia , owned by U.S. Steel
*Gary, Indiana , owned by U.S. Steel
*Gilman, Colorado , built around (and eventually abandoned due to) theNew Jersey Zinc Company 's Eagle mine.
*Grant Town, West Virginia , built by the Federal Coal and Coke Company, which built and operated the Federal No. 1 Mine.
*Gwinn, Michigan , owned by Cleveland Cliffs Iron, nicknamed the "Model Town", because CCI intended its layout to be a model for all of their other company towns
*Harrisville, New Hampshire , historic textile mill village; National Historic Landmark
*Hershey, Pennsylvania , built byHershey Chocolate Corporation
* Holden, Washington, built by theHowe Sound Mining Company , which also owned Britannia Beach. Once the most productive copper mine in the U.S., the mine closed in 1957 and it and the townsite were sold to a unit of the Lutheran church for $1 in the 1950s. Now run as a Christian retreat center.
*Hooper, Washington , owned by the McGregor Land and Livestock Company
*Irvine, California , built byThe Irvine Company and incorporated in 1971; the largest planned community in the world
*Kannapolis, North Carolina , owned by theCannon Mills Company
*Kaulton, Alabama , owned byKaul Lumber Co.
*Kohler, Wisconsin , built by theKohler Company
*Laona, Wisconsin , built by theWilliam D. Connor 's Connor Company
*Lake Buena Vista, Florida ,Bay Lake, Florida , and theReedy Creek Improvement District located withinWalt Disney World and owned byThe Walt Disney Company
*Lake Trade, Pennsylvania , a now defunct coal mining town in Venango Township, Northern Butler County
*Lynch, Kentucky , built and formerly owned by U.S. Steel
*Morenci, Arizona , owned byPhelps Dodge Corporation
*Morgan Park (Duluth) built byU.S. Steel and named for J.P. Morgan
*Newhalem, Washington , owned bySeattle City Light , as is nearby Diablo
*Newton, Iowa , where the well knownMaytag company closed down in 2006
*North Dighton, Massachusetts , former textile mill town, greatly expanded during the 1910s-1920s
*Oak Ridge, Tennessee , built in secret by the United States government for theManhattan Project
* [http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/peale/peale.html Peale, Pennsylvania] (1883-1912)
*Old Hickory, Tennessee , built to houseDuPont employees; now a suburb of Nashville
*Playas, New Mexico , built byPhelps Dodge Corporation
*Port Gamble, Washington , still owned byPope & Talbot but the lumber mill has not operated since the mid-1990s
*Proctor, Vermont , once owned by theVermont Marble Company . The town of Proctor was under the control ofSenator Redfield Proctor .
*Pullman, Chicago , once an independent city within Illinois, owned by the Pullman Sleeping Car Co.
*Roche Harbor, Washington , formerly supporting lime kilns owned byTacoma and Roche Harbor Lime Company .
*Roebling, New Jersey , a factory village within the limits ofFlorence, New Jersey . The town was owned by the Roebling Steel Corporation run by the descendants ofJohn A. Roebling .
*Ruston, Washington , established by industrialistWilliam Rust . The town's primary industry was anASARCO copper smelting plant.
*Saltville, Virginia , dominated by Mathieson Alkali Works and its successors through theOlin Corporation .
*Scotia, California "', largely owned by thePacific Lumber Company (PALCO).
*Slatersville, Rhode Island , historic former mill village
*Spreckels, California , formerly owned bySpreckels Sugar Company
*Sugar Land, Texas , once owned and run by theImperial Sugar Company, transformed into an upscale suburb
*Thurber, Texas , owned by a coal-mining subsidiary of theTexas and Pacific Railway
*Whitinsville, Massachusetts , former home ofWhitin Machine Works , textile machine manufacturer
*Ybor City, Tampa, Florida , built byVincente M. Ybor for hiscigar manufacturing businesses, now one ofTampa 's top night spotsAustralia
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Cabramurra, New South Wales , built as part of theSnowy Mountains Scheme .
*Mount Beauty, Victoria , established by theState Electricity Commission of Victoria to house construction workers from theKiewa Hydroelectric Scheme .
*Yallourn, Victoria , built by theState Electricity Commission of Victoria for workers at the Yallourn Power Station, demolished to enable further coal mining.Asia
India
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Kumarapatnam, Karnataka , developed byGrasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group . A small town developed solely due to two large scale units of Grasim Industries(textiles).
*Nagda, Madhya Pradesh , developed byGrasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group . The town economy is mostly dependent on the 4 large scale units of Grasim Industries(textiles).
*Kansbahal ,Orissa , developed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd. with the residential colonies, schools, hospital etc. all being established and maintained by L&T's heavy engineering works.Indonesia
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Tembagapura, Papua developed by PT Freeport Indonesia (subsidiary ofFreeport-McMoRan )References
*Linda Carlson, "Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest," 2003 ISBN 0-295-98332-9 [http://www.lindacarlson.com/historybook.html]
*Buildings of Ireland [http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15403324]
*cite book | author=Crawford, Margaret | title=Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns | publisher=London & New York: Verso | year=1995 | id=ISBN 0-86091-695-2
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