POST OFFICES – LOGAN COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA A DIGEST OF U.S. POSTAL DAILY BULLETINS OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTARY Did you know there is a Logan County in 10 different states in this country? Did you know there are 25 towns named Logan in this country? Recently, I began doing some research as to when the railroads […]
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An article by Bruce Jolly about the history of Logan, West Virginia.
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By Keith Gibson Buchanantown was a small community that existed across the Guyandotte river from Lyburn, WV. Actually, it was about half way between Lyburn and Neibert across from the old route 10 which is now known as “Hanging Rock Road.” I’m not really sure when the community was first called “Buchanantown”, (probably between 1885
*This article is from the 1952 Centennial Program Booklet published by the city of Logan. By Wib G. Whited The program of industry in Logan county was made at the completion of the railroad. In 1902 Major McKindrey, chief engineer for the Guyan Valley Division, cam to Logan by way of Dingess on the Norfolk
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*This article is from the 1952 Centennial Program Booklet published by the city of Logan. By L. E. “Chief” Thompson Since the advent of the telephone 76 years ago this service has played an important part in the development and growth of every community, and so it has been with Logan. The first telephones in
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By Dwight Williamson The Ohio, Guyandotte, Tug, and Big Sandy rivers, as well as Indian trails, were no doubt the first avenues of travel into the lands of what was centuries ago simply known as the unsettled mountains of western Virginia. Mostly Scotch-Irish settlers hailing as protestant immigrants from Northern Ireland, who had been looked
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By Dwight Williamson Although it might be difficult to pinpoint any one particular year in Logan County history as most significant, the year of 1963 has to stand out as a very important time in the annals of local history. A few things of paramount interest at the time include the worst flooding in the
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By Dwight Williamson In one way or another, we all are making history just by existing. However, for people who really study history, the quote, “Nothing has really happened until it is recorded,” most definitely applies. So,—let it be written and let it be said—that Logan County history is being made right before our eyes—in
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By Dwight Williamson The closing of so many Sears’s stores across the nation, including the one at Aracoma near Logan and the Charleston Town Center Mall location, is sad to see in these turbulent economic times. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that Logan County is suffering badly. Vacant buildings in the
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By Dwight Williamson It once was a thriving community which even included a bowling alley and a movie theater. Gone with the coal dust wind is the community of Sharples, which no longer has a school of any kind in the Logan County territory that includes the areas of Clothier, Kelly Hollow, Dobra, Mifflin, Blair,
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