Members of the Frost 4-H Club at the Pocahontas County Fairgrounds. The annual camp was held at the fairgrounds north of Marlinton until 1944. Meals were served in this 4-H Building which was used for 4-H Exhibits during the fair. The boys slept at the barns, the girls at the Agricultural Exhibit Hall. Empty bed ticks were filled with straw for beds and a dip in the Greenbrier River at 6:00 a.m. started the day, closing with the tribal council circle. In 1944, the first County Camp was held at Camp Pocahontas near Bartow at the old CCC Camp Thornwood. (Pocahontas County Historical Society Collection, Photo courtesy of the late Mrs. E. G. Sharp; ID: PHS000714)
Photographs in the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library may be found at www.pocahontaspreservation.org or www.preservingpocahontas.org
If you have photographs or documents 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.
