By the 1980s, Trammel was no longer the thriving town it had once been. The coal seams had thinned, jobs disappeared, and the Big Banner Coal Company—Trammel's last major employer—had folded. V.L. Bird, the town's longtime owner, had passed away. . . . — — Map (db m305169) HM
Hidden deep in the hills of Dickenson County, Trammel emerged between 1917 and 1919 to meet a national hunger for coal. The Virginia Banner Coal Corporation caved out this narrow, valley, building homes, offices, and a mining coperation to . . . — — Map (db m305165) HM
