My best friend in military school was from Bramwell. I spent a great deal of time with him and his family. I have so many wonderful memories of that family and town. How I wish I could go back in time 50 years.

My wife and I visited Bramwell about 2 years ago. It's a beautiful town. The gentleman that owns the Perry House was sweeping the sidewalk and gutter in front of the house. We stopped and talked with him. He was the nicest guy you could ever want to meet. We also visited Pocahontas, VA and all the towns along Highway 52 from Bramwell to Iaeger, WV. We parked in the decaying old downtown of Iaeger and just sat there a while. I can not describe the feeling of just sitting there looking at all the abandoned commercial buildings. We stayed at the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre. Thanks for posting this video. I would love for you to post a video of Iaeger so I could share it with my friends. Thanks again. Paul from Springfield, TN

I lived in Bramwell from age 11 until age 23. We spent our childhood riding dirt bikes and four wheelers making our own race tracks. Laying out on the abandoned train tracks with friends during the warm summer nights! Great memories there!

What a eerie looking town, no people in sight which is unusual, can you imagine how ghostly the town looks at night?

I visited my grandpa in Bramwell, just 2 weeks ago! Watching this video makes me want to go back there again! Bramwell is a cool and nice place if you want a peace of mind.

I live in Tiptop Va. which is about 25 min away, and let me tell you all that dont know the area, Bramwell is a very beautiful place especially during Christmas and they do the Victorian house tours. Not sure if they are gonna do them this year with covid going around, but if yall need something to do I suggest that

I love the old country towns and just the feel of them! They say that the grass is always greener but depending on what you like it just might be!!!! These old towns had such a simple living to them and to me its much better than the big cities!

I know it had its heyday period, but I can easily see the potential in this beautiful little town with its many storefronts downtown. Rebuild it with an emphasis on the rich culture and arts of WV. Many of those stores downtown could be turned into eating and arts establishments with small performing arts facilities indoors and outside that will attract Appalachian folk, old time, bluegrass, jazz and classical musicians to the area. Others can be combination art galleries and co-op stores, similar to what Ashville, NC has developed. Saratoga, NY is an example of what can be done that way and could be another "sister city" partner in Bramwell's regrowth. Bramwell is such a pretty town. Good luck in the future!

Nothing more beautiful than West Virginia.!!! ❤️

West Virginia is so pretty.

Hey ya'll my brother had a tv shop right down from Pinnacle Rock I think that's what it's called I saw a lot of big trucks come down that mountain scared the hell out of me his shop was Bernards TV that was 45 years ago since I've been there god bless from a Native Son west Virginia I left there 40 years ago miss it everyday

What a beautiful place. I love railroads . ❤️🚂

There is something about being in these old towns. Their old and dilapidated in some spots, still with that and the mountains around you, its strange but you feel at peace. Something there holds you for awhile and stays with you. The atmosphere is different, the air is different. Its all good. You might even want to stay. I tend to chalk it up to escapism. Id imagine in a place like this, you can really find yourself. No city BS no distractions. Just you, your little town and the wilderness. I love it. That feeling you get wondering around in a place like this seems to be that feeling of simplicity something we all naturally need. I really feel that this is how it was meant to be for all of us. This feeling is important.

Born and raised in Morgantown. Its weird how all the small towns in different county's appear the same.

Thank you Shane, again you have gone over and above to bring us another great video.

My parents went to Bramwell on their first date in 1940, before returning to Princeton to go see 'Gone With The Wind'. I've been there several times over the years for work.

I am a native of West Virginia. I'm old enough to remember when Coal was king, it really was Almost Heaven. I am sorry that this is no longer true. The mines closed, factories closed and the poverty settled in deeply. I still love our mountains. I always will. West Virginia will always be home to me.

I love my state of west Virginia best state ever we love it just as it is practically the same as it was a hundred years ago

I grew up there from 1984 to 1992. The narrater calls it the cooper house but back then it was the mayors house. My friend egged his house and got caught and his punishment was having to rake his leaves instead of going to jail. And the ice cream store

Great work, Shane. Love seeing these old towns with rich history. I think they are forgotten about today and the kids today are not raised and taught the sacrifices that our ancestors made so we can live the lives we live today.

I love watching the beautiful scenery recorded on a cell phone in a car going 40. Its just really relaxing.

I’ve lived in McDowell my whole life and I had no idea that Bramwell was an actual town. We pass by Bramwell when we go to Bluefield.

The Appalachian Project My Mom and I Went on our hundreds of trips to WV there few a times Really neat Place wish now being old I lived there great Video Thank You!

Great video Shane that town was surprisingly quiet

Like so many small towns in West Virginia it has seen it's better days.

Wow. Just yesterday I was house hunting on Zillow and I checked out that large light blue house across the bridge on the hill. This is a beautiful tiny town in the curve of the river. Thank you for your videos.

Thanks makes me homesick. Family from Clarksburg,wv.

WV is absolutely beautiful. I love seeing the old school beauty of some of the older county's and all the old structures

I’ve been there twice. It’s a unique little town. A former next door neighbor of mine grew up and graduated from Bramwell High School. She loved the town and used to talk about it all the time. I got to take a tour of the bank building and the president of the bank said they had a ghost on the second floor. It was also the office for the Bramwell Aristocrat newspaper

Looks like a lot of other towns also in wv. Need more jobs in WV!!

Beautiful old town and buildings! Doesn't look like much goes on here at all. Thanks for sharing

Great video my friend... I use to live in charleston and I have never been to many of the wonderful places in the state.. I look forward to seeing some of these great places in West Virginia

Thank you for another great video. I drove through Bramwell every day on my way to work in Welch in 1978.

I am from NY and for some reason W.V. has been calling me..deff going to take a vacation there once I am off papers and hell maybe I'll end up leaving the city life behind and start over.

I grew up at Coopers,just a few miles from Bramwell. I went to Bramwell H S until my 11th year and I finished my H S at Big Creek Sure do miss the mountains and friendly people

It is just plain cool that you share this footage and commentary with us!

I grew up in Summersville but live in NC now. Miss home and REALLY appreciate these videos!!!!

Can’t wait for the Spring tour! 2024 😊

I attended college in West Virginia and what an eye opening experience.

I lived on Coaldale Mountain and attended grade school in Bramwell.

Cool. Italian stone workers built the Blue Ridge Parkway Bridge, that I pass under everyday! From Stewartsville, VA

I had a relative from WV thank you so much may God bless you I'm a CA

What a wonderfully lovely tour !! Thank you ever so much !!!

It's usually gloomy/overcast in WV. Between Mid-Fall and April it's mostly this gloomy gray weather. In the late Spring and Summer, you get that tropical-like weather that brings thunderstorms most days around the early afternoon. So, if you like gloom and rain, WV is for you.

Incredible town! Thank you!

Looks like a Ghost town...you came across 1 live thing..a cat.

nice, large houses. beautiful mountains.

I wish you would have shown the houses!!

I was just thinking, why don't they do these videos when things are in bloom, or during Oct when WV is at it's height of pretty?

Reminds me of some of the towns in Carbon County, PA between Jim Thorpe and Wilkes Barre. Slightly less populated though. That black cat reminds me of my Ole evil wild Sooze (Suzy). More WV vids please. 👍

What a beautiful town. Will definitely visit when we go back out to SWVA. The houses remind me of the homes in the Poplar Hill section of Big Stone Gap. Thank you again for the effort Shane you do great work.

There were some beautiful houses there. I would have liked to have gotten better views of them.

I forgot Bramwell and Mayberry. I was working in the Bluefield studio....saw an address of Mayberry.....I asked if Barney was still the Deputy....i got a vacant look....um...I don't know.

Very good footage. Town is really quiet. No one out and about except for the little bit of traffic. I love this channel. Thank you.

Beautiful town love to go there i live in harpers ferry, west virginia

When I see little towns like this all I can think about is the movie Salem’s lot .

Correction to a comment I made, all the scenes on the movie “Dark Waters”, depicting a true story about Parkersburg, WV were filmed in Cincinnati, OH and Hamilton, OH. So it is not a true depiction of Parkersburg, WV. I earlier stated that some scenes were also filmed across the river in Kentucky. I say this to point out, don’t let movies form your opinions. Form your own opinion. This film grossly depicted the true story in order to make money, win awards and push a specific narrative, well after the fact. I know, because I grew up there and participated in the testing and didn’t moved until long after the trial was over.

Main street looks like an Edward Hopper painting.

Aw sad WV is the best I don't know why there hasn't been more progress

Pocahontas my home town is sadly eroding away!! Bramwell has always been one of the nicer coal mining towns!!

I love small towns like this. 💖

That looks more like millionaire houses from the 1920's. Go check out Julia-Ann Historic District in Parkersburg.

Lovely town. Greetings from Malaysia!

i live in bluefield i love it always will

That reply is from curtis cook, i didnt realize i was under my wifes name. But the diner was call the corner shop and they sold wot nots and flowers not too much ice cream. And when he heads past the diner and pans to the right, that house has a huge bank vault in it that the mining company would keep their cash in.

I grew up near Bramwell, actually I was born at Coopers WVa. Just 5 miles from Bramwell WVa. Sure do miss that area.

West Virginia always looks spooky n gloomy lol it looks like u could hide in those mountains forever

THE HILL'S & MOUNTAIN'S ARE AWESOME I WOULDN'T MIND PASSING THRU THERE AGAIN SOON IT'S A BEAUTIFUL TOWN I JUS LOVED DRIVING THRU THERE TO SEE A DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE BLUEFIELD WAS VERY ENCOURAGING TO SEE& I FELT ALOT OF PEACE & LOVE & HOPE THERE ,MY PARENT'S & GRANDPARENTS & GREAT GRANDPARENT'S WAS BORN & RAISED UP THERE I WANTA KNOW MORE BOUT THEM THAT I DIDNT KNOW CUZ I WAS TO LIL , MY GRAND PA & GREAT GRAND PA WORKED IN THE COAL MINES I WOULD OF LOVED TO MEET THEM BUT I WAS JUS A BABY WHEN THEY PAST AWAY , I MISS THE HILL'S & MOUNTAIN'S SO MUCH I WISHED I'D STAYED WHEN I WENT THERE BY MYSELF I COULDN'T BELIEVE I DROVE & MADE IT TO WHERE I WAS BORN , I WANNA GO BACK THERE THANK'S FOR SHOWING THIS VIDEO THANK'S AGAIN YA'LL

What a quaint little town, I bet it is beautiful at Christmas time. Would love to see inside some of these places.

Hit a lot of these West “by god” Virginia towns in my day of sport bikes when I lived in Chambersburg PA. Love WV and considered moving there but the wife and I couldn’t talk ourselves into the commute. Then when I retired I came way farther south.

Why is there no people or activity?

I love West Virginia!

thanks for showing us a gost town not a sole around or a car going the street

I don't wish to insult anyone, but I didn't see anything that came even close to a million dollar house.

Wow. I thought this was sun rise, not sunset. Not one single person visable. Not one moving vehicle in sight.

Sounds like a perfect place to live so nobody will bug you

Beautiful beautiful State.

ive been here,,my grandparents lived and worked here

Yeah those houses on the right look like million dollars estates as you approach town

I keep tryin to move away and always make my way back i love it

Just a ghost town now.

Neat town, almost a walk back in time there. Have never heard of Bramwell. I was just up there at Pipestem earlier this week checking out the new Zipline.

Love watching your videos but I've never seen a living solo on the streets in these towns. Crazy

Awesome video. Very neat place.

Bramwell 'still' has that Middle/Upper Middle Class vibe; the basic 'bones' of that town aren't bad at all.

Sooooo, maybe we’ll get a look at those swinging bridges in another video.

Strange how that black cat was right by the Masonic Lodge..... enjoyed the video and this town.

Interesting showing where wealth existed long ago. People think the Aristocracy in the South died after the Civil War, and on the surface it did. There is still one around, and they do have wealth, they still send their children to England for their schooling, and they actually speak with mixed Southern and English accent. I was exposed to this many years ago, although I was never part of it.

Each citizen has their own bench

Shane Get in touch I’d like to talk w you Thx WVa people

Beutiful place thank you very much

Kind of reminds me of Tasmania, Australia. Thank you for the upload.

Looks like a ghost town. Not a single person in sight.

I live here "gorgeous"

I have always said that if the W Va and E Ky mountains were in California the land would be so valuable and full of people and prosperity. Now the old building are junk shops and people settle for minimum wage tourist jobs. So many towns in W Va could be revived simply by the availability of fast and reliable internet service that would attract high income digital workers looking to escape CA and other expensive locations and they would offer opportunities to young people who were willing to learn the same. But the politicians are paid off by the old wire providers to keep out competition resulting in lousy service at high prices. Demand from your politicians hi speed, reasonable priced internet for your future.

An exemplary small WV town. The large old homes are lovely, but I would hate like h*ll to have to pay for heating in the winter!

Thanks for the tour of Bramwell,WV. Shane. Hard to tell. Is the Cooper house actually occupied? What did this Cooper do to generate his $$? Love the old native stone houses ,along with the pretty old bricked business buildings. Today it's all either cheapie stick built homes or i-beam steel for business buildings. Easy up,,,easy down.

Just saw yesterday that the town of Welch you mentioned was home of Steve Harvey

Where are all the good citizens of Bramwell, it's looks deserted, no vehicles, very depressing

Cool town