The Cooper House in Bramwell, known as the "Millionaires' Town in West Virginia's Southern Coalfields," which extended for 40 miles from Bramwell, which, it is said, once housed more millionaires per capita than any other town in America in the late 1800s. The rich Pochahontas coal fields, employing more than 100,000 miners, started in Bramwell and spread over forty miles. At one time, the Norfolk & Western railroad ran 14 trains a day through town. The Cooper House was built in 1910 by Edward Cooper, son of John Cooper, who founded the lucrative Mill Creek Mine on the West Virginia side of the massive coalfield (the remainder is in Kentucky.) Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2015.