This is a collection of photos of the community of Coal Branch located in Logan County, West Virginia. You can help preserve a bit of the history of Coal Branch by sharing your vintage photos of with this gallery. To share a photo here, send it to the admin at loganwv.us@gmail.com. Please note that you […]
This page lists the articles on this website and few external websites about the history of Logan County, West Virginia.
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A large collection of Logan County Photos. We invite everyone to share their vintage photos of Logan County and help preserve our Logan County history and memories.
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Rum Creek Area Photos This is a collection of photos of the Rum Creek area (Argyle, Cham, Dabney, Dehue, Hutchinson, Orville, MacBeth, Slagle, Rum Creek, and Yolyn) of Logan County. By Wanda Bryant Shell. This is the old home place where I was raised. This home is set behind the train tracks. And I had
Clarence Stacy – Cherry Tree resident makes good as Singer, Actor, Song Writer, Producer, Author and Playwright. Clarence Stacy and his mother, Alice, lived the second house above the Cherry Tree school beside the home of Milford Long. He has happy memories of his childhood in Cherry Tree and chumming around with Joe Piros, Jr
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By Pam Brennan When I was a senior at Logan High School (1980), my friend Jessica and I decided to go hiking at our local park after school one day. The trails are clearly marked so we didn’t see a problem. We met after school and started up the “Backbone Trail”, which just happens to be the longest and
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Residents of Cherry Tree, Whites Addition and Fisher Bottom as remembered by Bruce Davidson. This list was abstracted and edited by Robert McCormack. Editing was based on notes from Helen (Tarkany) Piros and from his own memories. As a child I heard many times that at one time there were two very large cherry trees
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Interview conducted by her son, Bob Piros in November of 2002. My first memory of Cherry Tree was in 1919 when I was 7 years old. My father, Gabor, and 1 walked down from Mona Hill to visit with my Uncle John Tarkany who lived with His family in the two story wood house almost
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The Pilgrim Holiness Church (Wesleyan Church) Pilgrim Holiness Church is a religious denomination associated with the holiness movement that split from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1897. It was first organized in Cincinnati, Ohio as the International Holiness Union and Prayer League. The organization later became the Pilgrim Holiness Church which eventually merged with the
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Based on interview of Helen Tarkany Piros (niece of John Tarkany) conducted by her son, Bob Piros in November of 2002. John Tarkany was born on June 26, 1881 in Csesznek, Hungary. He worked in the coal mines at an early age with his father George SR. and his brothers, Gabor, George JR. and Mike.
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