 When Estelle was asked to name the farm, she noted the farm simply had a plain view, thus "Plainview" became the name for the former potato farm.Tway was founded in 1912 as Tway operated a coal company from 1914 to 1948 which employed 250 miners and staff in Harlan County, Kentucky.The coal company formed a nearby coal camp named Tway, Kentucky roughly 1 mile south of Harlan.