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Miscellaneous School Photos

This collection of school photos from various school yearbooks and albums, etc. If you would like to contribute a vintage school photo (before 1980) to this gallery, please email the photo to the admin at loganwv.us@gmail.com. Miscellaneous Logan County School Photos

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Chief Logan State Park

This a collection of photos of Chief Logan State Park. The hollow now containing the park was originally called Little Buffalo and Merrill Coal Company operated a coal mine there. If anyone has any photos of this area before it became a park, please share them with this gallery. To share a photo, send it to

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Dehue, WV

Photos and History of Dehue, WV Dehue was named for D.E. Hewitt who owned and operated a sawmill in the area. It was once a thriving little community but when the Youngstown Mines Corporation closed its mines there, the demise of this little community followed. You can help preserve a bit of the history and memories

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My Life by Millard Porter Jr.

“Even in tough times life is not worth living, it’s worth remembering!” My Life by Millard Porter Jr. (1922-2018) I was born August 26, 1922 in Chauncey, Logan County, a coal mining community in West Virginia. My parents were Millard Sr. (1887-1955) and Bessie Stewart (1898-1991). They had seven sons. Five served the USA in WWII. Arthur (1914-1992),

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Frank Hutchison

By Jeff Wickland Frank Hutchison was born in Raleigh County, West Virginia in 1891. The date of his birth cannot be verified but some sources claim he was born on March 20th. Soon after his birth his family moved to Logan County, West Virginia, where he spent much of his life. Before he began playing

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