This mining town was built in 1881 by George Caperton alongside the main line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Caperton was later president of The New River Company. The orgininal name of the town was "Mincar." Around 1900 Queen Victoria allegedly owned the Caperton operation to provide coal for England (under the name Victoria Coal Coke). Sewell Colliery Co. owned the mine in the teens and they called the mine "Sugar Camp." However, the mine closed in the '40s or '50s. The school for white children was closed in 1952, the post office in 1954, and the town was abandoned shortly thereafter.

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