A crowd gathered for the horseshoe pitching contest at the Pocahontas County Fair in August 1926. The grandstand can be seen in the background. The county fair was held on the west side of the Greenbrier River just north of Marlinton from 1922 until 1957. (Pocahontas County Historical Society Collection; ID: PHS001766)
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