Torino Village One-Place Study

Torino Village was founded to support a nearby coal mine. However, the mine was soon exhausted and in a few decades the town was abandoned. I became interested in Torino Village because my great-grandfather William Carrington was a coal mine engineer who lived there with his family. Torino became a ghost town and now lies at the bottom of the Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Pond. The goal of this study is to connect people with the history of Torino Village and the lives of those who lived there.