Preserving Pocahontas

Memorial to Joseph Wilson - Feb. 1, 1923 Celebrating Black History Month. The photo is labeled “Cook & Cookee at...

Remembering Joseph Wilson 1851-1923 Celebrating Black History Month. This is Joe Wilson in a photograph taken in Judge George McClintic’s...

Wilson Chapel Methodist Church - 2014 Celebrating Black History Month. This is the Wilson Chapel Methodist Church at Brownsburg, three...

Brownsburg School – circa 1929 Celebrating Black History Month. Students and teacher in front of the Brownsburg School in the...

Smith Family Musicians - 1897 Members of the Smith Family, of Edray, are pictured here playing music in 1897. Mr....

Students at Rimel School – circa 1924 Students at the Rimel School in the 1920s. Back row, left to right:...

Group at Mace – circa 1910 An unknown group of men, women and children in front of an unidentified schoolhouse...

Marlinton Graded School Basketball Team - 1929 Betsy Jordan Edgar contributed this photograph in 2012 and wrote the following description:...

Section Crew on Track at Sitlington – circa 1908 Six men on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Section Crew riding...

Happy Christmas from Pearl and Lossing Buck – circa 1919 Signed Chinese Christmas Card from Pearl and Lossing Buck. Written...

Wishing You and Yours ‘A Merry Christmas’ A Merry Christmas Postcard from Marlinton businessman and storeowner Paul Golden in 1907....

Marlinton Tannery – circa 1925 A winter view of the tannery operation of the Pocahontas Tanning Company on the Greenbrier...

Hillsboro H. S. Orchestra - 1923 Members of the 1923 Hillsboro High School Orchestra pose with stringed instruments in front...

Lee Moore House in Mill Point – circa 1945 Lee Moore and his wife, Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Hicks Moore, built...

Friel Farm at Fairview Jerry Friel is holding the reins on a workhorse pulling a low sled at the Friel...

Molly Kincaid – circa 1908 A small portrait of Mrs. Molly Kincaid, of Marlinton, W.Va. taken by the Peerless Art...

Called to Serve, WWII – Oct. 3, 1942 These Pocahontas County men were called into service during the Second World...

Lt. Robert L. Greathouse - 1971 U. S. Navy Lt. Robert L. Greathouse, at right, shaking hands with his commander...

Picking Apples in Green Bank – circa 1910 Pictured from left to right: Mabel Woods, Flossie Conode, Allan Blackhurst and...

Layton Sharp, USSCS – circa 1969 Layton Sharp, Technician with the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in Pocahontas County, inspecting growth...