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  • Collection: Pocahontas County Historical Society

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Small unidentified logging camp. Four teams of horses with teamsters. Three men standing.

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Three unidentified loggers with two teams of horses skidding a log across a pole bridge.

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Small unidentified log camp with men, women and children, Could possible by Greenbrier River Camp.

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Log camp crew, men and women, at Boyer Siding. Number marked on photo: 1. Will Arbogast, 2. Lewis Collins, 3. Jesse Hudson, 4. Eugene Kelley, 5. Ed Galford, 6. Arch Galford, 7. Frank Ashford, 8. Blanche Kennedy, 9. Orin Gillispie. Also in picture are…

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West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company log loader with men loading logs on track. In loader with hat on: Ed Hudson. On right end of log: Austin Nottingham. 2nd from right end: Lewis Collins.

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Logging crew in northern Pocahontas County, W.Va. Number marker on photo: 1. Bland Nottingham, 2. Lewis Collins, 3. Charley Nottingham, 4. Cook, James Kirkpatrick

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W.Va. Pulp and Paper Company's Shay No. 3 with nine cars of logs at the upper switch back on Cheat Mountain near Cass, W.Va.

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Unidentified portable saw mill on side of a hill in Pocahontas County, W.Va. Shows saw blade, men and teams of horses.

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Inside of an unidentified portable saw mill in Pocahontas County, W.Va. Shows steam boiler and four men working.

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Small log train with five men and three cars loaded with logs in Pocahontas County, W.Va. Possibly on Thorny Creek.

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Warn Lumber Company log camp on Bird Run east of Frost, W.Va. Shows buildings, train track and skidded logs on hillside.

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Warn Lumber Company Cutting Timber on Bird Run in Frost, W.Va. Logging crew standing on large felled tree with logs on the hillside.

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First Mallet Engine on Greenbrier Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio at Ronceverte, W.Va. Two train men with Ronceverte Depot at the right.

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Constructing the cut for the logging railroad between the old Town of Spruce on Cheat Mountain and Slaty Fork, W.Va. Men working on the left, machines in the distance.

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Group of Men, possibly Loggers, Eating on Field Near Knapps Creek in Marlinton, W.Va. Marlinton Grade School can be seen in background.

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Men running a portable steam engine on farm near Huntersville, W.Va. Standing left to right: Wallace McLaughlin,Charles Moore, Joe Phillips, Walter Grimes, George Ginger, French Moore, A.P. McLaughlin, Paul Crummet (owner of machine). Young boys left…

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Winter scen of a portable saw mill on Brown's Creek near Huntersville, W.Va. Shows stacks of lumber and two teams of horses. Pictured left to right: Austin Sharp, Collins, Jim Collins, Joe Webb, Harry Pritt, Ed McLaughlin (holding horse), Luther…

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Large group of children and adults on the last day of school at the Browns Creek School north of Huntersville, W.Va. School opened in 1895 and closed in 1920. Building later became Browns Creek Church.

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Two families with children standing in front of large building at a log camp in northern Pocahontas County, W.Va. Possibly Camp No. 4 on North Fork of Deer Creek.
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