Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

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...

Thursday, November 14, 1927 Withrow McClintic saved and counted the beans from one stalk in his garden this season. The...

Thursday, November 5, 1931 OLD GRIST MILLS Under the caption “Our Old Grist Mills,” Charles Carpenter writes a piece for...

Thursday, May 28, 1925 THE BIG BEAR Continued… There was some fear that the old bear had moved out on...

May 28, 1925 The champion fish taken so far was caught by Gene Kinnison at Kinnison Station – a blue...

Thursday, October 16, 1928 The burglar was ransacking the home of the farmer when the farmer came in and asked...

Fishing Trip Continued from last week… The fish continued to bite freely and the loads got heavier, and when we...

Fishing Trip Continued… It was just about noon when we commenced, and we edged down the stream, filling our haversacks...

Thursday, September 27, 1928 A collision of a horse and automobile on the Hunters-ville road near Kramer’s Camp Monday night...

Thursday, September 20, 1928 Continued from last week… It seems to me that I did not have a normal youth,...

September 13, 1928 We never realize what a good thing youth is until it is too late. – Red Head...

Boom Times in Pocahontas Think of Pocahontas County and one has to be reminded of the forest-covered mountains that dominate...

Thursday, August 30, 1928 Near this place, about two hundred yards up Knapps Creek, the largest tributary of Greenbrier River,...

Thursday, August 24, 1928 An automobile party from Lucerne, Missouri, composed of J. R. Kellison, his sister, Mrs. Sallie Young,...

August 10, 1928 L. S. Cochran gave us a “hand” of hemp, which was grown, pulled, bleached, broke, scotched and...