This winter scene shows Gerry and Arthur Briggs with axes and a crosscut saw at an unknown timbering site in Pocahontas County. The photo dates to the early 1900s and may have been taken on Cheat Mountain near Spruce. Photo Courtesy of Pocahontas Co. Historical Society, ID: PHS002644
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