Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

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...

Thursday, July 6, 1899 A few days since, Eddie Carter killed the big rattlesnake whose trail has attracted attention the...

Thursday, June 29, 1899 The 4th of July will be properly celebrated in Marlinton. The committee has arranged to have...

Thursday, June 22, 1899 A bad runaway accident occurred at Mt. Vernon church Sunday. Joseph Lantz’s horse ran away and...

Thursday, June 15, 1899 A shooting affair is reported to have occurred last Saturday west of Frost between Enos Sharp...

Thursday, June 8, 1899 The grove near Hamlin Chapel is the habitat of a gray squirrel that has lost the...

Thursday, June 1, 1899 MOB LAW AT PRINCETON Is the North becoming barbarous? Is law and order to be trampled...

Thursday, May 25, 1899 The log drive got as far as Bird’s mill dam, which is opposite Renick’s Valley on...

Thursday, May 18, 1899 A big deed has been recorded here between the St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company and...

Thursday, May 11, 1899 President McKinley and Mrs. McKinley are in Bath County, where they will spend two or three...

Thursday, May 4, 1899 J. A. Whiting has a well trained team. At Buckeye, he left them stand and they...

Thursday, April 27, 1899 Last Friday, a boy fishing for trout found an old millstone almost buried in the bed...

Thursday, April 20, 1899 GETTING INSURED Old Bob conceived the idea of having his life insured. “How much do you...

Thursday, April 13, 1899 The Gillespie neighborhood has been on quite a boom during the last few weeks, since Col....

Thursday, April 6, 1899 There is much said and more surmised concerning the speedy railroad development of Pocahontas. Enough of...

Thursday, March 30, 1899 Sugar making is now the order of the day in Buckeye, and the chimneys of smoke...

SHOOTING IN GREENBRIER Grant Cochran shoots and kills Lundy Perry May 26, 1904 A killing, the result of a feud...

Thursday, March 16, 1899 Joe B. McNeil killed a red fox in his barn last week, but it had already...