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"Slough" (wetland,shallow lake) in front of the Allen Blackhurst home in Cass, W.Va. Shows group of small houses on the other side.

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Aeriel view of the logging town of Cass, W.Va. Wide view shows company store, churches, company houses.

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Postcard - Bird's Eye View of Winterburn, W.Va.Lumber mill is shown on the right, company houses on the left. Logging town is in northern Pocahontas County near Bartow.

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C&O Track Crew at Stony Bottom, W.Va. Shows six young men on small car in front of what appears to be a store. Sign on left says "Agent for Long Wear Shoes." Part of Stony Bottom rail sign visible at right of photo.

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Business district on East side of Cass, W.Va. Following Greenbrier River Flood. Visible landmarks include Cooper's Store and the iron bridge crossing the river

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Postcard - Large group of children with teacher at Thornwood School in Thornwood, W.Va. Nina Wright is far left on back row (marked with 1), Louis Page Wright is center left (marked with 2). Children of Louis Clinton and Bertha Hamner Wright.

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Three camp cooks standing in the kitchen area of the dining hall at the Campbell Lumber Co.

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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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School at the lumber town of Dunlevie - later renamed Thornwood

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Elmer Burner House on top of the hill at left, overlooking a section of the town of Cass, W.Va.

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Unidentified group of loggers and others at a lumber camp near the town of Thornwood (Dunlevie).

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Postcard - View of Thornwood, W.Va. with two-story house in foreground and the lumber mill in the background. Utility poles and split rail fence visible near house with maturing apple orchard. Postcard is addressed to Mrs. D. B. Canfield in Elkins,…

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Log landing at Wildell on the west fork of the Greenbrier River in upper Pocahontas County. Shows three men with horse team skidding logs. Over 1,000,000 board feet at this landing in 1912.

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Louis Clinton Wright delivered goods from the store in Thornwood to the logging camps. Pictured in his buggy with two horses, Kit and Kate.

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Four men standing in front of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Station at Winterburn. Clarence Livesay, Agent. Shows signage for Western Union Telegraph and Cable Office, and Adams Express Company

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Mower Lumber Company train being powered up Cheat Mountain by Shay Engine No. 4. This Shay is now hauling tourists at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park

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Six older students at Spruce School. Teacher was Ruth Blackhurst. In the picture: Bob Nelson, Oneda Powers, Barbara Nelson and Butch Cousins. The lumber town of Spruce was on Cheat Mountain above Cass, W.Va.
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