Editing Monongah, West Virginia (section)

==Economy==
Fairmont Coal Company, of [[Fairmont, West Virginia]], bought 36 mines in June 1901, including six mines of the Monongah Company.<ref name="Fairmont Coal Company Story">{{cite web |title=Fairmont Coal Company Story |url=http://www.historyinsidepictures.com/Pages/TheFairmontCoalCompanyStory.aspx |publisher=Einhorn Press |access-date=June 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407004758/http://www.historyinsidepictures.com/Pages/TheFairmontCoalCompanyStory.aspx |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

The town's local cement block factory went out of business in 2002 and was torn down in 2003.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

The broadcast tower for the Fairmont AM radio station, WMMN, was constructed in the middle 1930s atop Tower Hill in Monongah.<ref>In 2004, Jack Meredith (1925–2007) recorded his recollections of growing up on Tower Hill, including the story of how he helped dig the ditches that electrically connected the three WMMN broadcast towers. http://don.homelinux.net/~don1/TowerHill/jack_text.html{{dead link |date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The town is featured in the post-apocalyptic video game [[Fallout 76]].