Preserving Pocahontas

Forester Jim Martin poses beside a large red oak log in this photograph taken December 7, 1979 at the Burruss Lumber Company sawmill at Stillwell near Marlinton. The tree had been cut October 28 by logging crew Wallace Simmons, Doc Hoke and Mitch Simmons on Knapps Creek. Scaled at 4,904 board feet in eleven logs, the tree was about 100 feet tall and at least 200 years old. Photo courtesy of Pocahontas Co. Historical Society, ID PHS004680

Access the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library at pocahontaspreservation.org or preservingpocahontas.org If you have historical record or photographs to be scanned for the county Historical Archive contact Preservation Officer B. J. Gudmundsson at 304-799-3989 or email info@pocahontaspreservation.org Prints of photographs from the archives are available.