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  • Collection: Pocahontas County Historical Society

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Shay engine No. 4 pulls a southbond passenger train with 4 cars out of the C&O Tunnel norh of the lumber town of Harter. Shows train crossing bridge over the Greenbrier River.

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Wide view of a Shay engine pulls a 3 car passenger train southbound out of the C&O Tunnel norh of the lumber town of Harter. Shows train crossing bridge over the Greenbrier River.

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Warn Lumber Company mill and town at Warntown located at Stamping Creek near Mill Point, W.Va.Shows complete sawmill operation, log holding pond, stacks of lumber and railroad tracks.

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Lower row of house and church at original location in Warntown. Warn Lumber Company operation located at Stamping Creek near Mill Point, W.Va. Also shows lumber and raised railroad tracks.

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Large groups of workers on tracks leading into the Warn Lumber Company Mill at Warntown, at Stamping Creek near Mill Point, W.Va.

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Warn Lumber Company Engine No. 1. The engineer is Earl McComb. Warn Lumber Company, located at Stamping Creek near Mill Point, W.Va. Their railroad had two engines.

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Board house at Warntown. Warn Lumber Company located at Stamping Creek near Mill Point, W.Va. Men standing around, track in front.

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Aerial view of sawmill operations at Watoga, located on the Greenbrier River near Seebert, W.Va. Mill first operated by J. R. Droney Lumber Co., then W. A. Tombs Lumber Co., then Watoga Lumber Company. Company houses in background.

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Aerial view of Marlinton, W.Va.southof the bridge on the Greenbrier River. Pocahontas County courthouse at top of photo, construction of Marlinton Grade School barely visible at left.

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J. Woods Price, Confederate Veteran, of Marlinton, W.Va. Pictured in the middle with 2 veterans and canon at reunion at Gettysburg, Pa.

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Unknown groups of band members in uniform with instruments, riding in a car bus on field in Marlinton, W.Va.

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Interior view of Meat Market and owners Dick Beard and Mr. Ashcroft wearing butcher aprons in Marlinton, W.Va.

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The Shisler Home located on the Marlinton and Lewisburg Turnpike (US Rt 219) at the Greenbrier County Line on Droop Mountain. Shows horses hitched to various wagons with men in front of farmhouse.

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Crowd posing with a dead horse killed by the train in Marlinton, W.Va. The driver of the buggy, a Syrian named Albert Shaheen, was killed. He owned a store at the newstand site on Main Street. C. J. Richardson Hardware is in the background.

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The C&O - Chesapeake and Ohio - Railroad Depot in Marlinton, W.Va. Two agents standing in front. Freight sitting on the platform. Sign over window reads "Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office." Sign by door reads "Adams Express Company". Below is…

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Men serving on the Pocahontas County Circuit Court Jury. Posed here for photograph in field in Marlinton, W.Va. 5th from left - Letch Hudson. 9th from left - William H Wooddell. Standing at right - Maj. Crawford Arbogast, Sheriff. Seated at far…

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Women's Christian Temperance Union Parade Float at unknown location. Women in costume holding signs, man driving, horses pulling float. Signs on building in background read "Lehigh Portland Cement" and "Pillsbury Best Flour."

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Spectators lining both sides of the street at a parade in Marlinton, W.Va. Possibly upper Second Avenue, then known as Upper Camden Avenue.

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Hillsboro High School Class Play in 1914 at Hillsboro, W.Va. Cast in costume on stage. Eva Beard, Sherman Moore, Polly Sydenstricker, Ralph Buckley, Henry Beard, Carl Bruffey, Dakota Kirk, Clyde Grimes, Lynn Overholt, Hallie Burr, Ruth Cline, Ulric…

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Hillsboro High School Class Play in 1914 at Hillsboro, W.Va. Cast in costume on stage. Not identified.
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