Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

Thursday, September 27, 1928A collision of a horse and automobile on the Hunters-ville road near Kramer’s Camp Monday night resulting in a dead horse and a badly damaged car. Emerson Sharp was driving along...

Thursday, September 20, 1928Continued from last week…It seems to me that I did not have a normal youth, having taken charge of a helpless and indignant family at the age of fourteen years. But...

September 13, 1928We never realize what a good thing youth is until it is too late. – Red Head BillSometimes we meet young boys that convince us that youth is better than it was...

Boom Times in PocahontasThink of Pocahontas County and one has to be reminded of the forest-covered mountains that dominate the county. Trees, and the products derived from them, have been a major factor in...

Thursday, August 30, 1928Near this place, about two hundred yards up Knapps Creek, the largest tributary of Greenbrier River, the railroad crosses, and the pier in the middle of the stream has caused a...

Thursday, August 24, 1928An automobile party from Lucerne, Missouri, composed of J. R. Kellison, his sister, Mrs. Sallie Young, Mrs. S. S. Putnam and Allan Hill, came back to Pocahontas for the Home Coming...

August 10, 1928L. S. Cochran gave us a “hand” of hemp, which was grown, pulled, bleached, broke, scotched and hacked by his great-grandfather, David James. It has been in the Cochran family for many...

Thursday, August 3, 1922Pocahontas Home Coming At the County Fair August 22nd, 1922Meet and greet your friends and kin on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the County on the first day of the...