Observed arrival · 2026-09-08
The Company Town, Where the Town Was the Wage
An archival documentary project about American towns built, owned, and eventually abandoned or transformed by companies.
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The project treats each company town as a case file, pairing a documentary with the documents behind it. For Nitro, the homepage gives a concrete scale: 1,772 acres, 737 manufacturing buildings, and 23,951 residents in a city built in eleven months. It also describes a correction process in which disputed claims are checked against page-level sources, with unresolved gaps left as open questions rather than silently filled.
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