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"Little Jim" the First Steam Engine in Pocahontas County. Shown in the White Pine Woods with first engineer, Jim Watson. Shows logs on rail cars and workers.

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1906 Postcard. Photo of log jam on Knapp's Creek with "Greetings from Hotel De. Armit, A. De. Armit, Prop. Marlinton, West Virginia." Sent by Joseph Z. Trent to Ruth Stevens, Greenfield, Ohio.

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Aerial view of the Harter, lumber town built by Harter Brothers Lumber Company. View shows town with houses, mill operation, railroad tracks and wooden bridge crossing the Greenbrier River. 5 miles northeast of Marlinton, W.Va.

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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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Workers building the mill at Watoga. Two workers in front, others in background. Portable steam engine visible.

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Six men on Chesapeake and Ohio Section Crew posed on a handcar on the railroad track near Sitlington, south of Cass, W.Va.

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Campbell Lumber Company Loader at skidway near Camp #4 on Williams River. Shows men on log cars, Shay #1, and log skidding on hillside.

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Row of 5 company houses in the lumber town of Spruce, W.Va. near Cass. Shows wooden walkways and outdoor toilets. Mill barely visible in background.

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Construction of a building at the Harter Brothers Lumber Company mill at Harter, 5 miles northeast of Marlinton, W.Va. Shows workers and horse-drawn wagon.

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A small black and white dog looking out on the log pond at the old lumber town of Spruce on Cheat Mountain above Cass, W.Va. Shows company houses, Western Maryland train and train underpass.

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The first mill at Harter owned by the Harter Brothers Lumber Company, Logging town of Harter was located on the Greenbrier River 5 miles northeast of Marlinton, W.Va.

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The first mill at Harter owned by the Harter Brothers Lumber Company, Logging town of Harter was located on the Greenbrier River 5 miles northeast of Marlinton, W.Va.

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Shay Engine No. 2 of the Greenbrier and Elk River Railroad, parked on track with four unidentified men standing. Section of railroad car visible, marked G C & E 101 (Greenbrier Cheat and Elk)

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Group of twelve loggers at Little River on the East Fork of the Greenbrier River at Thornwood. First Row left to right: (2)Low, (4)Jornal Low,(5)Astin Sharp, (6)Buster Bowers. Second Row left to right: (5)Jess Irvine, (7)Lou Morgan

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Group of lumberjacks at an unknown lumber camp with log structure. In the group are: Billie Bright, Joe Kerr, Philip Rader, Milton Gum

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Group of lumberjacks on a large log landing at an unknown location in Pocahontas County

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Group photo of workers and owners of Warn Lumber Company at Raywood, near Dunmore

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Wilmoth and Kerr Store on Main Street in Durbin, W.Va. H. E. White (left) and J. D. Wilmoth, Owner (right) are standing in front of store.

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A group of workers at the Hosterman Mill on the Greenbrier River near Durbin. Hosterman was also called Hiner Town. Milton Gum is in the group.
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