Female students, dressed in white, graduating from Eighth Grade at Green Bank Academy in Green Bank, W.Va. The nine young women pictured left to right: Mabel Gillispie, Fronie Flynn, Wilma Beard, Mabel Wood, Ama Connode, Amy Burns, Stell Brown, Faye Woodell and Cora White Cotton. The two men standing on the left: Burley Simmons, Teacher; and Burley Williams, County School Superintendent. (Pocahontas County Historical Society Collection; ID: PHS004559)
On the Hunt! We have a request for photographs of the Beauty Contest at the Pocahontas County Fair in the 1950s. Please get in touch if you have photographs that we can scan. Thanks in advance.
Access the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library at pocahontaspreservation.org/omeka or preservingpocahontas.org
If you have historical records or photographs to be scanned for the county Historical Archive contact Preservation Officer B. J. Gudmundsson at 304-799-3989 or email info@pocahontaspreservation.org Prints of photographs are available.
