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...

An Old Mystery The Pocahontas Times October 5, 1899 One of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in a courtroom...

AN OLD MYSTERY The Pocahontas Times June 8, 1899 Continued... About 1890, Dick Knapp disappeared from his home near Edray,...

Richard Harry "Dick" Knapp, 1847 – Dec. 1889 The Pocahontas Times January 9, 1890 Dick Knapp very mysteriously disappeared from...

Over 80 By Annie Cromer Published March 1, 1973 Jennie Bell Slaven’s stories, continued I will give this paper that...

Over 80 By Annie Cromer Published March 1, 1973 I went to see Jennie Bell Slaven about helping me write...

Areas of interest in the Town of Spruce. 1. The school, built in 1920; closed in 1950. 2. The railroad...

HISTORY OF DUNMORE COMMUNITY By Ella Pritchard Published February 3, 1927 Continued Copied from the church records: “Baxter Presbyterian Church,...

HISTORY OF DUNMORE COMMUNITY By Ella Pritchard Continued Robert Dunlap McCutchan married Elizabeth Youel Lockridge, of Goshen, Virginia, and settled on Thomas Creek in...

HISTORY OF DUNMORE By Ella Pritchard continued.. W. J. Cackley and B. F. McElwee built the house where J. E....

Letter to the Editor March 24, 1927 Mr. Calvin W. Price, Editor; It was with much interest “The History of...

Pioneering in Old Pokey (These stories are written by Ben Blankenship, of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, who decided he wouldn’t hide...

Pioneering in Old Pokey By Billy Hill Round-Up Time and Cattle Drives Like the story of wagon trains, round-ups and...

Pioneering in Old Pokey By Billy Hill Ice Break-up and Log Drive It was about 1897 or ’98 that the...

A GRUELING FOOT RACE By Si Sharp History of Pocahontas County ~ 1981 From about 1885 until 1914, there was...

Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County ~1901 By William T. Price Among the prosperous citizens of Pocahontas County in its early...

Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County ~ 1901 By William T. Price BIOGRAPHIC WILLIAM AULDRIDGE William Auldridge, Senior, the ancestor and...

HILLSBORO COMMUNITY History of Pocahontas County ~ 1981 Hillsboro, located in a rich and beautiful upland valley, is named for...

Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County ~ 1901 By William T. Price BIOGRAPHIC JOSEPH BROWN The Brown relationship trace their ancestry...

We had a request for a copy of the following article from the August 17, 1905 edition of The Pocahontas...