Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~1821-2021
NEW HIGHWAY FOLLOWS OLD INDIAN TRAIL ROUTE
Birmingham, Alabama Herald
The Pocahontas Times
September 15, 1927
Through Tucker, Randolph, Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Monroe and Mercer counties, West Virginia, runs the Seneca Trail, which before long will be known as...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
PIONEERS COME TO THE FORESTS
Based on Tumult on the Mountains
Dr. Roy B. Clarkson
The first white men to settle in this area arrived in the Eastern Panhandle in the early part of the 18th century....
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
ABOUT THE COUNTRY
June 26, 1924
Continued
One reason that bears are increasing so rapidly in the black forest on the western edge of Pocahontas is the fact that every family no longer keeps a pair of...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
ABOUT THE COUNTRY
June 26, 1924
The Pocahontas Times
Samuel Gibson got himself a fine big two year old bear in a trap on Gauley Mountain Friday morning. He made his set a mile or so from...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
History of Edray Community
By S. B. Moore
Continued
My father, Isaac Moore, settled in the woods where I now live. Father’s house was a hewed log house, about 16 x 20 feet; shaved shingle roof, chinked...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
HISTORY OF EDRAY COMMUNITY
By S. B. Moore
The Pocahontas Times
November 4, 1926
Edray community is bounded on the west by Stony Creek range of mountains; on the north by Elk Mountain, to the top of Slippery...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
An Old Mystery
The Pocahontas Times
October 5, 1899
One of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in a courtroom took place at this court. Last spring, Enos R. Sharp testified that Scott Kelley or Scott Bowers...
Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821-2021
AN OLD MYSTERY
The Pocahontas Times
June 8, 1899
Continued...
About 1890, Dick Knapp disappeared from his home near Edray, and it has always been believed that he was murdered, tho the failure to find the body has...