 When the railroad arrived in 1873 Nuttall had built almost 100 houses, with 80 coke ovens, a variety of mine structures and a coal tipple on a railroad siding.Flat land by the river was dedicated to railroad and industrial use, leaving houses to seek perches on the hillsides.The town was racially segregated with white workers on the west side of Short Creek and black workers on the east side and between the railroad and the river.