If you’re looking for a relatively short and easy hike in the Monongahela National Forest and you’re near Pocahontas County, a trip to the Falls of Hills Creek is definitely recommended–no matter what season it is! The Falls of Hills Creek trailhead is located on U.S. Route 39, about 15 miles west of U.S. Route 219 […]
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 […]
This year will be Droop Mountain State Park Superintendant Mike Smith’s 30th year at the park. At Traveling 219 we’ve been very grateful to have been able to work with Mike on so many occasions. Mike has an abundant wealth of knowledge about the area. If you have any questions regarding local history, geography, geology, […]
Joel Callison, of Pocahontas County, has farming in his blood. His ancestors have been farming in the county for generations. Just in his lifetime Joel’s witnessed rapid changes to agricultural practices and technology that have revolutionized the lives of farmers and changed rural communities everywhere. In 1935, the total number of farms in West Virginia […]
“We command you to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead, and educate the orphan” – seal of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows (IOOF). For part two click here. We came across this video while researching the history of Elkins. It tells the story of James Blevin, who grew up in […]
by Jeffrey Kanode On a side road just off of US 219, beyond Lewisburg, past Maxwelton, before Frankford and Hillsboro, I rediscovered the spirit, and the soul of Christmas. In that gentle countryside where the land rises and falls gracefully, where the land changes with subtlety and not abruptness, I discovered a place and a […]
Elkins lies in a shallow, bowl-shaped valley at a five-mile bend in the Tygarts Valley River. The main part of the town extends from the north bank of the river up the gentle slopes of Cheat Mountain. The business district extends northward from the river and is flanked on the south by the West Maryland […]
by Roxy Todd and Dan Schultz, Traveling 219 In Christmas of 1955, at least six people reported seeing a beige mountain lion near Marlinton, West Virginia, according to an article by Calvin Price, who was then the editor for The Pocahontas Times. Browsing through the newspaper articles that Price wrote, Traveling 219 producers Roxy Todd and […]
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, ninety-nine subsistence communities were built as part of the New Deal to provide relief to unemployed families stranded in impoverished communities across the country. Three of those communities were built in West Virginia. One of them, the Tygart Valley Homestead, was developed right along US Route 219 in […]
Over the next twenty years, most people who still know the art of clock repair will pass away, leaving the world millions of antique clocks in need of regular winding and repair. On Dec 12, Doyle Kisner, a clock repairman from Tucker County, will turn 90 years old. For the past two and half years, […]
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