Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021

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

Thursday, August 3, 1922 Pocahontas Home Coming At the County Fair August 22nd, 1922 Meet and greet your friends and...

The Huntersville Road By Andrew Price March 1, 1928 Excerpts … I want to make some mention of a citizen...

In Memory of William Sharp, Sr. Submitted by the family on the occasion of the 2019 Charles J. and Ora...

Thursday, July 12, 1928 STATE PARK DEDICATED BIG CROWD CELEBRATES THE FOURTH ON DROOP Last Wednesday, July 4, the Droop...

Thursday, July 5, 1928 The will of the late M. S. Woods, of Jacox, was recorded in the clerk’s office...

June 28, 1928 STATE PARK TO BE DEDICATED ON JULY 4TH The Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park will be dedicated...

Thursday, May 11, 1935 The words of wisdom of Governor John J. Cornwell, as spoken at the annual older boys...

Thursday, May 11, 1935 Read the words of wisdom of Governor John J. Cornwell, as spoken at the annual older...

Thursday, May 2, 1935 continued... Talking about lost men in these mountains, I would say that for wholesale disappearance the...

Thursday, May 2, 1935 My friend Moody Moore, close observer of things in general and out of doors things in...

Thursday, May 25, 1938 WILD HOGS When we came to Pyles Mountain thirteen years ago, a heavy crop of mast...

Thursday, May 18, 1933 In the big wind storm Monday afternoon, five big sugar trees were blown down around the...

GREENBANK LAND GRANTS October 23, 1934 Continued Now, going back to the lands of the early settlers of the Greenbank...

GREENBANK LAND GRANTS continued A grant for 44,000 acres was issued to Thomas Wilson in 1795. His tract of land...

GREENBANK LAND GRANTS October 23, 1934 R. W. Brown, Surveyor Greenbank, W. Va. Dear Cal; Some time ago you asked...

Thursday, April 17, 1930 Trout season opened on Tuesday, and the streams were crowded. Weather and water were just right,...

Thursday, April 8, 1909 BIG SLIDE The entire top of the mountain at New River Falls, two miles east of...

Thursday, March 27, 1930 Fred Sizemore was before Squire T. S. McNeel on Monday morning and confessed to a charge...

Thursday, March 20, 1930 NATURE NOTES Last Saturday the 40 day ground hog weather period was up and the wild...