Keystone, WV

Keystone is a city in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 176 residents. Keystone possessed a unique combination of political, social, and economic characteristics that made it an attractive place for African-Americans to migrate to in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Keystone was founded in 1892 by the Keystone Coal & Coke Company. The through line in Keystone is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Keystone makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Keystone was then incorporated in 1909 by the Circuit Court of McDowell County. The town is a railway station on the Norfolk Southern Railway network.