Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

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...

Thursday, August 31, 1899 It is with emotions of sadness that one, who admires beautiful scenery, hears the noble pines...

Thursday, August 24, 1899 Late advances from Paris are of a very serious character. There was a riot in the...

Thursday, August 17, 1899 Grandpap McLaughlin went to the huckleberry woods on Thomas Creek last week and picked 33 gallons...

Thursday, August 10, 1899 The terrible drought was ended by fine rains last Sunday. Uriah Hevener has sold his large...

Thursday, August 3, 1899 On the Fourth of July, a party of little people had a picnic to themselves near...

Thursday, July 27, 1899 There are some mud holes in the road between Green Bank and Travelers Repose that when...

Thursday, July 20, 1899 A good deal of prospecting has been done on Cheat Mountain near Clover Lick this year...

Thursday, July 13, 1899 We learn from the Randolph Enterprise that Lee Bowers was killed at Pickens July 3, by...