Ronceverte Train Depot
A real treasure! Anybody have memories of visiting this place? View more photos from our collection by clicking here!
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Sunshine before a Storm
An old farm on Back Mountain Road near Edray. Loving the little red building and the silo! Anybody remember this place?
Old Watoga Town
The ghost town of old Watoga lies almost hidden, just feet from the Greenbrier River Trail about 2.5 miles north of Seebert. Watoga was originally a sawmill town of the Watoga Lumber Company during the logging boom in the area in the early 1900s. In the 1920s, an African-American organization from Mercer County, West Virginia banded […]
Abandoned Farm House and Equipment in Hillsboro
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Tucker County Courthouse Clocktower
Inside the clock tower of the tucker county courthouse, Parsons.
Locust Creek Covered Bridge
This historic covered bridge is located on Locust Creek just five miles from Hillsboro. Please share your memories or any history you might know about the bridge in the comments box below!
Tygart Valley Homestead School
The Homestead School, completed in 1939, today serves as the Homestead Elementary School in Dailey, West Virginia. Originally part of the Tygart Valley Homestead, the Great Depression-era government resettlement community, the Homestead School was a proud part of the unique architecture developed in the valley as part of the homestead. The brick art-moderne building was state of […]
The Pink Cone of Pocahontas County
Along the highway in Pocahontas County, West Virginia sits a pink,15 foot Tepee. Shrouded in local mystery, no plaque or sign is out front to explain just what it is, but chances are if you’ve driven past the thing, it’s caught your eye. It is located along US 219 up Elk Mountain about five miles […]
Panther Series: A Panther Shredded His Hat
Here is another episode in our series about mountain lion and panther sightings in West Virginia. In the early 1900s in Monroe County, a mountain lion stole the straw hat right off the head of Clarence Mohler. His grandson, Craig Mohler, editor of The Monroe Watchman, told me this story last year when we were […]
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