List of company towns

This is a List of company towns.

Towns listed in bold are still considered company towns today; other entries are former company towns. See for an unannotated list of articles.

Europe

Belgium

* Louvain-la-Neuve, home of the Université Catholique de Louvain

France

* Noisiel (Seine-et-Marne), home of the chocolate factory owned by the Menier Family
* Sochaux-Montbéliard (Doubs), home of Peugeot
* Villeneuvette (Hérault), mill town owned by Jules Maistre

Ireland

* Rochfortbridge (County Westmeath), built by public company OPW in the 1840s as part of famine relief on the site of an original village and rebuilt 110 years later by Bord na Móna during the 1950s for its employees, the more modern phase being designed by architect Frank Gibney.

Denmark

*Billund, home of LEGO's International Headquarters.

Germany

* Leverkusen, home of the Bayer AG (?)
* Wolfsburg, built to house Volkswagen workers

Italy

* San Donato Milanese, home of the ENI. Built by Enrico Mattei for company's workers, the town is centered on a neighborhood called "Metanopoli" (Methanopolis).

Transnistria (Moldova)

* Dnestrovsk, developed by Moldavskaya GRES

Netherlands

* Batadorp, Best municipality, developed by Bata Shoes
* Heveadorp, Renkum municipality, developed by Hevea Shoes

Russia

Non-ferrous metal industry (the plants there are mostly owned by Norilsk Nickel):
* Norilsk
* Monchegorsk
* Zapolyarny
* NikelIron mining:
* Kovdor
* OlenegorskNon-metal mineral extraction and processing:
* Apatity
* KirovskOil and gas:
* Surgut
* Nizhnevartovsk
* Nefteyugansk
* Novy UrengoyPetrochemical industry:
* Kstovo
* Kirishi

Russian writers and politicians commonly use the expression "градообразуюшее предприятие" ("gradoobrazuyushchee predpriyatie", literally 'the enterprise that has created the town') to refer to the industrial facility - these days often part of a larger company such as LUKOIL or Norilsk Nickel - that is the city's main employer and the main source of funding for the city's budget.

United Kingdom

North America

Canada

* Anyox, British Columbia, a now-abandoned smelter town on Observatory Inlet, near the mouth of the Nass River.
* Arvida or now Jonquiere, Quebec, owned by Alcan
* Batawa, Ontario owned by Bata
* Bralorne, British Columbia, and nearby Pioneer Mine, British Columbia; both famous gold mining towns; Bralorne's third townsite is also known as Bradian
* Bridge River aka Bridge River Townsite, now South Shalalth, a British Columbia model village developed as part of the Bridge River Power Project and now mostly depopulated.
* Britannia Beach, British Columbia - a semi-abandoned copper and gold mine and crushing plant near Squamish
* Camp McKinney - gold, near Rock Creek, British Columbia
* Clayburn, British Columbia - brick clay mine and brick kiln
* Copper Moutain, British Columbia - copper, near Princeton, British Columbia, abandoned 1960s
* Espanola, Ontario, until 1958 owned by the paper mill.
* Elsa, Yukon
* Fermont, Quebec
* Flin Flon, Manitoba (and Saskatchewan), owned by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting(HBMS)
* Fort Vancouver and other former Hudson's Bay Company trading posts-cum-towns in the Pacific Northwest. Others include Colville, Victoria BC, Fort Langley BC, Hope BC and more.
* Fraser Mills, British Columbia, now part of Coquitlam but originally owned by Crown Zellerbach (the company President was the mayor, by default and acclamation). Most workers in Fraser Mills did not live in the "village" (as incorporated) but in nearby Maillardville
* Gold River, British Columbia - now incorporated
* Government Cannery, British Columbia
* Harmac, British Columbia - pulp mill, near Nanaimo, British Columbia
* Keno City, Yukon
* Kimberley, British Columbia, now incorporated
* Kitimat, British Columbia, based around an aluminum smelter built by Alcoa's Canadian subsidiary Alcan. Also nearby is Kemano which accompanies the Kemano powerhouse of the Nechako Diversion
* Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador developed by the Iron Ore Company of Canada
* Logan Lake - copper mine
* Nanisivik, Nunavut, built to support a lead-zinc mine and abandoned after the mine's closure in 2002.
* Nitinat, British Columbia, near Youbou, British Columbia - former company town of Crown Zellerbach, a forestry company
* Ocean Falls, British Columbia, a now-abandoned pulp mill town on the central BC Coast
* Port Mellon, British Columbia, a pulp mill and town on the east shore of Howe Sound near the Langdale ferry terminal, which is near Sechelt
* Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador
* Woodfibre, British Columbia a pulp mill town on the east shore of Howe Sound near Squamish
* Walkerville, Ontario a distillery on the south shore of the Detroit River, founded by Hiram Walker

Dominican Republic

* La Romana, primarily owned by the Central Romana Corporation (part of the Fanjul sugar and real estate empire).

United States

* Acipco, Alabama, formerly owned by American Cast Iron Pipe Co.
* Ajo, Arizona
* Alcoa, Tennessee, owned by Alcoa
* Bagdad, Arizona, owned by Phelps Dodge Corporation
* Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Former home of American Bridge Company
* Bayview, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
* Boulder City, Nevada, built and owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation
* Bryce Canyon City, Utah, built and owned by Ruby's Inn and the Syrett family, owners of Ruby's Inn
* Camden, Texas, owned by the W.T. Carter & Brother Lumber Company and its successors
* Cass, West Virginia, founded in 1901 for West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company logging the nearby mountains
* Chester, California
* Clarkdale, Arizona, built, named for, and formerly owned by Senator William A. Clark's United Verde Copper Company
* Cohoes, New York, formerly owned by Harmony Mills
* Coalwood, West Virginia, formerly owned by the Olga Coal Company
* Docena, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
* Durango, Colorado, organized in 1880 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
* Edgewater, Alabama, formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
* Empire, Nevada, owned by United States Gypsum Company
* Fairfield, Alabama, (1910) originally "Corey", formerly owned by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.
* Ford City, Pennsylvania, organized in 1887 by PPG Industries
* Gary, West Virginia, owned by U.S. Steel
* Gary, Indiana, owned by U.S. Steel
* Gilman, Colorado, built around (and eventually abandoned due to) the New Jersey Zinc Company's Eagle mine.
* Grant Town, West Virginia, built by the Federal Coal and Coke Company, which built and operated the Federal No. 1 Mine.
* Gwinn, Michigan, owned by Cleveland Cliffs Iron, nicknamed the "Model Town", because CCI intended its layout to be a model for all of their other company towns
* Harrisville, New Hampshire, historic textile mill village; National Historic Landmark
* Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Hershey Chocolate Corporation
* Holden, Washington, built by the Howe Sound Mining Company, which also owned Britannia Beach. Once the most productive copper mine in the U.S., the mine closed in 1957 and it and the townsite were sold to a unit of the Lutheran church for $1 in the 1950s. Now run as a Christian retreat center.
* Hooper, Washington, owned by the McGregor Land and Livestock Company
* Irvine, California, built by The Irvine Company and incorporated in 1971; the largest planned community in the world
* Kannapolis, North Carolina, owned by the Cannon Mills Company
* Kaulton, Alabama, owned by Kaul Lumber Co.
* Kohler, Wisconsin, built by the Kohler Company
* Laona, Wisconsin, built by the William D. Connor's Connor Company
* Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Bay Lake, Florida, and the Reedy Creek Improvement District located within Walt Disney World and owned by The Walt Disney Company
* Lake Trade, Pennsylvania, a now defunct coal mining town in Venango Township, Northern Butler County
* Lynch, Kentucky, built and formerly owned by U.S. Steel
* Morenci, Arizona, owned by Phelps Dodge Corporation
* Morgan Park (Duluth) built by U.S. Steel and named for J.P. Morgan
* Newhalem, Washington, owned by Seattle City Light, as is nearby Diablo
* Newton, Iowa, where the well known Maytag company closed down in 2006
* North Dighton, Massachusetts, former textile mill town, greatly expanded during the 1910s-1920s
* Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built in secret by the United States government for the Manhattan Project
* [http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/peale/peale.html Peale, Pennsylvania] (1883-1912)
* Old Hickory, Tennessee, built to house DuPont employees; now a suburb of Nashville
* Playas, New Mexico, built by Phelps Dodge Corporation
* Port Gamble, Washington, still owned by Pope & Talbot but the lumber mill has not operated since the mid-1990s
* Proctor, Vermont, once owned by the Vermont Marble Company. The town of Proctor was under the control of Senator Redfield Proctor.
* Pullman, Chicago, once an independent city within Illinois, owned by the Pullman Sleeping Car Co.
* Roche Harbor, Washington, formerly supporting lime kilns owned by Tacoma and Roche Harbor Lime Company.
* Roebling, New Jersey, a factory village within the limits of Florence, New Jersey. The town was owned by the Roebling Steel Corporation run by the descendants of John A. Roebling.
* Ruston, Washington, established by industrialist William Rust. The town's primary industry was an ASARCO copper smelting plant.
* Saltville, Virginia, dominated by Mathieson Alkali Works and its successors through the Olin Corporation.
* Scotia, California"', largely owned by the Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO).
* Slatersville, Rhode Island, historic former mill village
* Spreckels, California, formerly owned by Spreckels Sugar Company
* Sugar Land, Texas, once owned and run by the Imperial Sugar Company, transformed into an upscale suburb
* Thurber, Texas, owned by a coal-mining subsidiary of the Texas and Pacific Railway
* Whitinsville, Massachusetts, former home of Whitin Machine Works, textile machine manufacturer
* Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, built by Vincente M. Ybor for his cigar manufacturing businesses, now one of Tampa's top night spots

Australia

* Cabramurra, New South Wales, built as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
* Mount Beauty, Victoria, established by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria to house construction workers from the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme.
* Yallourn, Victoria, built by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria for workers at the Yallourn Power Station, demolished to enable further coal mining.

Asia

India

* Kumarapatnam, Karnataka, developed by Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group. A small town developed solely due to two large scale units of Grasim Industries(textiles).
* Nagda, Madhya Pradesh, developed by Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group. The town economy is mostly dependent on the 4 large scale units of Grasim Industries(textiles).
* Kansbahal, Orissa, developed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd. with the residential colonies, schools, hospital etc. all being established and maintained by L&T's heavy engineering works.

Indonesia

* Tembagapura, Papua developed by PT Freeport Indonesia (subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan)

References

*Linda Carlson, "Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest," 2003 ISBN 0-295-98332-9 [http://www.lindacarlson.com/historybook.html]
*Buildings of Ireland [http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM&regno=15403324]
*cite book | author=Crawford, Margaret | title=Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns | publisher=London & New York: Verso | year=1995 | id=ISBN 0-86091-695-2