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The town of Rome was founded at the junction of the Little and Big Coal rivers in the 1890s by the Childress Family.
Soon the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway built a line along the Coal River to transport coal from the coal fields in Boone and Logan counties into the hub in nearby town of St. Albans.
A constable policed the town, although without a vehicle he relied on the generosity of locals to transport him from place to place.
It was also at approximately this time Union Carbide built a summer camp called Cliffside on the banks of the Coal River.
The town flourished for the next half century with most of its residents working in either the mining industries or in chemicals.
Two elementary schools were founded in the town, one being Alum Creek Elementary on the Kanawha County side, and Midway Elementary on the Lincoln County side.
A high school was also built in the 1930s known as Washington District High School, after the tax district.
In the mid-1970s U. S. Route 119 was constructed through Alum Creek, and brought a host of businesses into Alum Creek, however this did not help the town out of poverty due to a decline in the coal mining and chemical industries.
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