Preserving Pocahontas

Unidentified Man – circa 1902 Celebrating Black History Month. This unidentified man probably lived in the northern part of Pocahontas...

Lewis E. Wheeler, 1870 - 1917 Celebrating Black History Month. Lewis Edward Wheeler was born in 1870 in Bath County,...

On the Shay at Spruce – 1930 On January 26, 1930, friends Roy Phillips, “Teeny” Weese and Ruth Waugh dressed...

Ladies in Winter, Marlinton – circa 1912 Six women are seated in the snow and ice along Knapps Creek in...

Unknown Lady – circa 1900 This is a well-preserved tintype portrait of an unidentified lady dressed in black. The photo...

Hillsboro H. S. Football Team - 1926 The Hillsboro High School Football Team, Class of 1926, is pictured beside the...

Link Cochran with a Still – circa 1914 Sheriff Lincoln S. Cochran with his dog, on the left, and Ross...

This year’s Christmas card comes from Neal, Ruth and Jane Pritchard, of Buckeye, in 1962. It pictures little Jane Pritchard...

Photographing a Locomotive – December 1966 A photographer with a circuit camera can be seen on the left in this...

Riverside in Winter – circa 1925 Well-known local photographer Harvey Bright captured this quiet winter scene in Riverside above Marlinton...

Rev. Richard Newkirk and family at a Marlinton Presbyterian Church Christmas Party in 1979. Left to right: Rev. Newkirk, wife,...

Cal Price with Hunting Party – circa 1940 Cal Price, Editor of The Pocahontas Times, is second from the left...

Building Train Station at Durbin – circa 1905 The first passenger train, operated by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, arrived...

Corporal Oliver M. Sprouse - 1944 World War II portrait of Corporal Oliver M. Sprouse of Frost, W.Va. Sprouse was...

Installing Ski Lift – Snowshoe 1981 A helicopter is being used to install the lifts on the Widowmaker Slope at...

Thornwood Store - 1916 The photo is titled “Interior of Store – Thornwood, W.Va.” and shows two men posing for...

View of Seebert - 1910 The Greenbrier River is seen on the left in this photograph of Seebert taken in...

Laying Cornerstone at B.O.E. Building – 1948 This is one of five photographs taken by Ted McElwee of Marlinton Lodge...

Pocahontas County Courthouse – circa 1945 This postcard shows the Pocahontas County Courthouse in Marlinton as it looked in the...

Rev. AbsalomSydenstricker – circa 1920 Rev. Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker, Presbyterian missionary to China and father of author Pearl S. Buck,...