Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

The Pocahontas Times John E. Campbell, Editor and Proprietor June 1892 The brilliant mischief of one’s own children is outright...

The Pocahontas Times John E. Campbell, Editor and Proprietor Huntersville, West Virginia Terms of Subscription: $1.00 per year April 1891...

The Pocahontas Times December 1890 SMALLPOX “The coward suffers a thousand deaths” is a saying as old as the hills....

Thursday, September 24, 1891 A CORRESPONDENT writing to us from Pocahontas county says, “Old Pocahontas has begun to come to...

The Pocahontas Times March 1891 At a County Court continued and held for the County of Pocahontas at the Courthouse...

The Pocahontas Times December, 1888 A Stopper of Runaway Horses A Boston correspondent of the Woonsocket (R. I.) Patriot, tells...

Thursday, August 31, 1911 Some years ago county people owned about forty thousand acres of land on the western border...

Settlers in Pocahontas County before 1800 The Pocahontas Times 1977 A special committee of the Pocahontas County Historical Society is...

Old Time Winters By R. W. Brown The Pocahontas Times April 10, 1947 Dear Cal; As we are writing this,...

Tourism in Pocahontas County has rich history William P. McNeel The Pocahontas Times April 1997 Continued… In 1923, the George...

Tourism in Pocahontas County has rich history William P. McNeel The Pocahontas Times April 1997   The first post office...

Tourism in Pocahontas County has a rich history William P. McNeel The Pocahontas Times April 1997   As this article...

Thursday, October 27, 1949 FIRST HOMES Jacob Marlin and Stephen Sewell built the first cabin and lived here in 1750-51....

100-Years-Ago Thursday, January 1, 1920 Notice is hereby given that all persons who have become infected with the disease known...

Odds and Ends The Pocahontas Times September 29, 1988 Memoir for Sherman Hammons and Maggie Hammons Parker The Hammons family...

December 15, 1927 The editor’s barrel of chestnuts has to be miraculously restored week by week like the widow’s barrel...

December 8, 1927 Game Notes The other night some citizens of the Frost neighborhood were coming from Highland county. As...

November 1927 Sherman Gibson, of Knapps Creek, grew over a thousand bushels of corn on nine acres of ground this...

November 1927 Edgar Varner, who broke jail at Marlinton a few weeks ago, was shot and killed by an officer...

November 1927 Hunting is the order of the day. That phrase used to be a convention with the staff of...