Preserving Pocahontas

This year’s Christmas card comes from the The Grady K. Moore family. It pictures the home of Grady and Noble Moore on Rt. 39, Hamilton Hill, in Marlinton in 1955. Most of us remember...

Third grade class at Durbin Graded School, 1938-1939. Bottom row, left to right: Mary Edna Wimer, Green Arbogast, Jack Lambert, Unknown, Richard Gainer, Lake Sutton, Jakey Hull. Second row, l-r: Vernon Colaw ?, Archie...

Loggers are working with a team of horses on a log landing at Camp No. 9 in northern Pocahontas County. Pocahontas Co. Historical Society Collection, ID: PHS000095 Access the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library at www.pocahontaspreservation.org...

Portrait of Charles Clark Carter at four years of age in Marlinton, W.Va. He was born April 24, 1904 to Marvin Clark Carter and Levia Jane Gibson Carter. He was the brother of Georgia...

A hunting party poses with their prize white-tailed deer on Gauley Mountain near Slaty Fork. Pictured left to right: George Griffen, Bryce Griffen, Andy Loan, Frank Gibson, Sam Gibson. Photo courtesy of Pocahontas County...

The Chesapeake & Ohio, fondly remembered as the C&O, on a stop in Marlinton in September of 1958. The photograph shows the engine, caboose and a box car of the train. According to Bill...

A group of hunters with a bear near Rimel, W. Va. Pictured left to right: Unknown, Forest Dean, Unknown, Andy Gum, Bernard Reinhardt, Ellis Dean. Courtesy of Thomas E. Rider, ID: PHP003244 Access the...

Loggers with tools and teamsters with horses are pictured at an unknown location in Pocahontas County. Pocahontas County Historical Society Collection, ID: PHS004496 Access the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library at www.pocahontaspreservation.org or www.preservingpocahontas.org If...