Travellers’ Repose in Bartow, pictured on this postcard from the early 1900s, is located on the old stage turnpike midway between Staunton, Virginia, and Parkersburg, West Virginia. The “famous old hostelry” is at the site of the first overnight stagecoach stop west of the Alleghenies, the first post office in Pocahontas County, as well as the first Civil War battle scene in Pocahontas. (Courtesy of Stephen McNalley, ID: PHP000547)
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