Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

Thursday, January 18, 1900 BIG TRACT OF LAND SOLD L. M. McClintic, as special commissioner, made a private sale of...

Thursday, January 11, 1900 Five miles of track has been laid on the Greenbrier Railway. The work will progress steadily,...

Thursday, January 4, 1900 WEATHER NOTES We can generally count on winter weather for Christmas in West Virginia. This year,...

Thursday, December 28, 1899 Father Abraham’s Talk This talk is found in Poor Richard’s Almanac and is represented as having...

Thursday, December 21, 1899 UNDER A CLOUD A few weeks since, a stranger appeared in the county and spent some...

Thursday, December 14, 1899 ODDS AND ENDS The deer hunting season that just ended in the upper sections of the...

Thursday, December 14, 1899 REWARD One hundred dollars reward offered for one hundred and eleven head of sheep amiss, and...

Thursday, December 7, 1899 William Bussard has his wrecked engine repaired on very favorable terms. Being disappointed in getting an...

Thursday, November 23, 1899 Joseph McNeel’s choice herd of calves has been seriously depleted by six from black leg. The...

Thursday, November 16, 1899 In Easton, Maryland, Judge J. B. Bennett, a prominent Democrat went into a booth on election...

Thursday, November 9, 1899 Last Sunday night was very frosty and a stranger showed strange taste in lying down in...

Thursday, November 2, 1899 One of the most beautiful views in our county is to be had from the summit...

Thursday, October 26, 1899 A group of neighbors in The Hills, consisting of four or five families living in sight...

Thursday, October 19, 1899 MARLINTON Marlinton is to be the largest town on the Greenbrier Railway, if one can judge...

Thursday, October 12, 1899 One of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in a courtroom took place at this court....

Thursday, October 7, 1899 At one of the camps along the Greenbrier, a man appeared hunting work the other day,...

Thursday, September 28, 1899 When the records of the county were moved to Marlinton to the temporary courthouse, a brick,...

Thursday, September 21, 1899 DUNMORE And it rained once more. Quite a crowd attended singing at Dunmore Sunday evening. Remember...

Thursday, September 14, 1899 There is a mineral spring on the west branch of Indian Draft contiguous to Edray that...

Thursday, September 7, 1899 Our State has suffered from the illicit sale of liquor if ever a State did, but...