Site Index

Index of Logan County Articles and Photo Galleries

In addition to the alphabetical listing of post titles below, you can choose to use the standard WordPress listing to see the latest.

• “Boots” was anything but a normal coal miner
• 1916 West Virginia Advertisements
• 1916, 1917 were especially eventful years in Logan County
• 1922 Man High School Yearbook
• 1925 Phone Directory of Logan
• 1926 Logan High School
• 1927 Man High School Yearbook
• 1934 Logan County
• 1936 Logan High School Yearbook
• 1939 Logan High School Yearbook
• 1943 Logan High School Yearbook
• 1947 Logan High School
• 1947 Phone Book
• 1948 Logan High School
• 1949 Logan High School Yearbook
• 1950 Logan High School Yearbook
• 1951 – Logan teacher sells $50,000 of War Bonds, wins contest
• 1957 Flood Photos
• 1957 Logan High School
• 1960 Logan East Junior High School
• 1963 Flood Photos
• 1963 Man High School Yearbook
• 1964 Logan High School
• 1969 Phone Book
• 1979 Logan High School
• 2012 Logan County Vintage Photo Contest
• 24 Miners Rescued – May 1958
• A Gaping Black Mouth – MacBeth 1937
• A Genealogist’s Poem by Mel Oshins
• A guardian angel from 1972
• A History of Logan
• A Mixture of Memories of the 50s and 60s
• A Soldier’s Letters
• A stringent look into the history of Logan County
• A Time to Weep – Bartley 1940
• A Trip Back in Time
• Alderson helped elevate Logan to greatness
• Altizer Family of Man
• Always Home, West Virginia
• Another Day Older. . . And Deeper in Debt
• Aracoma High School
• Aracoma Hotel Fire
• Aracoma Hotel History
• Articles About The Murder of Mamie Thurman
• Augustine Family History
• Autobiography – Johnny Walker
• Banking in Logan County
• Battle of Blair Mountain
• Battle of the Island
• Biography of Benjamin Otto Holland
• Biography of Bruce Leonard Holland
• Bits of History and Nostalgia
• Black Bottom
• Blair, WV
• Bluegrass Rules
• Buchanan Family History and Tragedy
• Buchanantown
• Buffalo Creek Disaster – Feb. 26, 1972
• Buffalo Creek Flood Disaster – First Hand Account
• C.C. Chambers was one tough judge
• Cap Hatfield led an interesting life
• Carmello “Mel” Cottone went from Mt. Gay to the White House
• Carter County, KY Fire Tragedy & Ballad
• Census Taker
• Changes in Logan during the year 1912
• Chapmanville, WV
• Chauncey
• Chauncey Hollow Triple Killing, August 1927
• Cherry Tree Gallery
• Cherry Tree Golden Gloves Boy
• Cherry Tree Grade School
• Cherry Tree in the news
• Cherry Tree Map/Residents
• Cherry Tree Memories by Bob Piros
• Cherry Tree Neighbors and Pals
• Cherry Tree Photo Galleries
• Cherry Tree Reunions
• Chief Logan State Park
• City losing another historical structure
• City View
• City View Cemetery
• Clarence Stacy – Cherry Tree Resident Makes Good
• Coal Branch
• Coal camp Christmas memories
• Coal Company Scrip
• Coal Miners – The Heroes of Appalachia
• Coal town Omar lives on in FSA photos
• Company I, 2nd Infantry, WV Army National Guard List (1912-15)
• Crooked Creek & Peach Creek Cemeteries
• Danny M. Greene Memorial Bridge
• Dark as a Dungeon – Holden, March 8, 1960
• Death Comes a Knocking – Willow Grove, Ohio 1940
• Death of the Hatfield brothers
• Dehue Company Store Closing
• Dehue Past and Present
• Dehue, WV
• Development of Education
• Dillon Descendant Outline
• Don Chafin
• Don Chafin and the Battle of Blair Mountain
• Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
• Drive-Ins and Theaters
• Earling, WV
• Early 1900s Logan was crime infused with soap opera
• Early Life In Logan County
• Early Life In The Guyan Valley Vividly Pictured
• Early Logan Co.: A mighty tough place to live
• Early Logan County was a ‘mess’
• Early Travel in Logan County
• Elsie Szakal
• English credited with discovering coal in Logan Co.
• Ethel, WV
• Even without the vote, Logan women accomplished much
• Every building in downtown Logan has a story
• Family Feudin’!!!
• Family Tradition
• Farming and Homesteads
• Final Thoughts
• Finding Princess Aracoma
• Fires change course of Logan’s history
• Flood of 67
• Floyd D. Stollings
• Footprints in the Sands of Time
• Former baseball player from Holden barely remembered today
• Frank Hall was a legendary moonshiner
• Frank Hutchison
• Frank Stewart Martin – Logan Bottling Company
• Gay Coal and Coke Company
• Genealogy of Robert McCormack
• Getting To Know Our Ancestors
• Goodbye My Darlin’ Hello Vietnam
• Graveyards abounded under Logan streets
• Growing up with the Company Store
• Halloween escapades of the “Porch Sitters”
• Harris Funeral Home
• Harts Creek, WV
• Haslam Family of Monaville, WV
• Haslam Family Photos and Postcards
• Hatfield and Chafin clans played large role in Logan history
• Hatfield Pioneers
• Hayden Gibson and Gibson Family Genealogy
• Henlawson, WV
• Henry Clay Ragland
• High Iron In The Hills
• Hinchman Cemetery
• History before our eyes
• History of Cherry Tree
• Holden, WV
• Holiday Memories from the Shegon Inn
• I almost drowned once…
• I’ll Give You a House and 3 Rooms of Furniture, if You’ll Marry Me.
• J. B. Ellis School at Verdunville, WV
• Jack Dempsey’s Childhood Home
• Joanna’s (West) Virginia Genealogy Page
• John E. Thompson Cemetery
• John Tarkany, a Prominent Early Cherry Tree Resident
• Joseph (S. Joe) Scaramuzzino
• Justice Grade School
• Kathy’s story
• Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr.
• Letters from the Logan County Honor Roll
• LHS Class of 1937
• LHS Class of 1938
• Life was more free when tram roads crossed the mountains
• Little Egypt Lost – Havaco Mine – JANUARY 15, 1946
• Logan and Lincoln County Vietnam Casualties
• Logan area had thriving Italian community
• Logan Civic Little League
• Logan Co. people with national interest
• Logan County Courthouse 1875-1905
• Logan County Featured Videos
• Logan County history filled with unsolved murders
• Logan County is rich with Native American history
• Logan County Main Photo Gallery
• Logan County Memories
• Logan County People and Places
• Logan County Photos
• Logan County Tidbits
• Logan County WV WWII Plane
• Logan County, WV Communities and Towns
• Logan Court House Elm
• Logan High School almost missed being on the island
• Logan High School Class of 1934 and 1935
• Logan High Students from Cherry Tree
• Logan was a focal point of Tommy gun sales
• Logan Wildcats
• Logan, WV 1952 Centennial Celebration Photos
• Logan’s Boulevard has a storied history
• Logan’s Old City Cemetery
• Logan’s Telephone 1905 – 1952
• Longing for the good old days
• Look Before You Leap
• Lorado
• Lorenzo Dow Thompson
• Lost In Chief Logan State Park
• Love Letters to a Coal Miner’s Daughter
• Love, Robb, Logan native’s book about his Army son
• Lundale
• Lyburn Mine Fire
• Man & Triadelphia District
• Man Cemetery
• Man, W.Va., holds 100 years of memories
• Massey/Massie Descendant Outline
• McDonald Family of Logan County
• Mel Cottone recalls growing up in Logan
• Mel Cottone rubbed elbows with presidents
• Memories of a WV Coal Miner
• Memories of a WV Mountain Kid
• Memories of Cherry Tree by Mrs. Helen (Tarkany) Piros
• Memories of Growing Up in Cherry Tree by Joe Piros
• Memories of Paul Dyer From The 50’s & 60’s
• Memories of Riding the School Bus
• Memories of the Hinchman Home
• Mid-1930s were a wild time in Logan County
• Midelburg Island
• Mine Wars
• Miscellaneous School Photos
• Miss Softball America
• Monahill Memories
• Monaville WV Grade School
• Monaville, WV
• Monitor Road – A book by Carla Haslam
• Monitor, WV
• Montcoal, WV Mine Disaster – April 5, 2010
• Monumental efforts gave us our ‘Doughboy’
• More Logan County History
• Morrison’s Drive-Inn
• Mount Gay, WV
• Mountain Woman
• Mounts Cemetery
• Mt. Gay Elementary School
• Mud Fork
• Mud, muck and misery
• My 1963 Cherry Tree Flood Memories
• My Coal Miner Pepaw
• My Life by Millard Porter Jr.
• My Logan County Roots
• My Memories of Logan
• Nagy’s Grocery
• Neighbors
• Newspaper and Radio
• Night of the Angel
• Number Please?
• Obituary For Ronald Charles McCormick
• Old newspaper articles tell of Battle of Blair Mountain
• Omar, WV
• Our Day In The Sun – A Coal Miner’s Poem
• Our Family Album and Stories
• Peach Creek, WV
• Photos of Friends and Families
• Pilgrim Holiness Church
• Post Offices, Logan County, West Virginia
• Preserving Your Family Photos
• Railroad History of Logan County
• Random thoughts on Logan history and people
• Recalling one of the worst floods in Logan
• Recollections
• Recollections of old stores and “filling” stations
• Remembering some of the coal camp communities
• Remembering the Community of Holden 22
• Reunion Announcements
• Rev. Uncle Dyke Garrett
• Rossmore Mine
• Rum Creek, WV
• Runnin’ the TV Line
• Sally Wall — Logan’s Oldest and Best Curb Girl
• Scaggs Cemetery
• School Daze
• School Photos and Yearbooks
• Searching for the Holland grave
• Sharples, WV
• Sidney B. Lawson, MD
• Since Mamie Thurman’s Day, Has Logan Changed?
• Snow Birds
• Some early history of the Logan area
• Some find their life goals at home; others move away
• Spiritually reuniting Logan’s pioneer couple
• Steve Tarkany WW 2 Records
• Stirrat
• Stirrat Grade School
• Switzer Grade School
• Tennis Hatfield and the Blue Goose Saloon
• Tennis Hatfield’s rise and fall is a story to remember
• The Ammar Brothers
• The Barath Family History
• The Civil War in Logan County
• The Creation of Logan County
• The Development of Medicine In Logan County
• The Dime Store Lunch Counter
• The Doughboy Honors Heroes
• The End of an Era
• The end of the Hatfield political dominance
• The First Logan High School
• The Great Flood of ’63
• The Greatest School Year Ever
• The Hatfield–McCoy Feud: America’s Most Famous Family Conflict
• The historic cemetery in Logan
• The Historical Hinchman House
• The journey of Logan’s Woman’s Club
• The Last Time I Was Ever on a Swinging Bridge
• The legendary Don Chafin
• The little town at the mouth of Buffalo Creek
• The Logan Theatre History
• The man responsible for the creation of Mingo County
• The Midelburg family history in Logan
• The murderous ’30s
• The old custom of ‘funeralizing’
• The porch sitters
• The Reverends and the Revenuers
• The Slate Dump
• The story of Tennis Hatfield, son of Devil Anse
• The story of the Chirico family restaurants
• The Train Station
• The Zekanys of Logan County
• Thomas Dunn English
• Thompson 1840-54 Land Surveys for Logan County
• Thompson Descendant List
• THOMPSON/PATTON/OSBORNE FAMILY HISTORY
• Those were the good old days of Logan
• Thrill-Mad Monster
• Times Have Changed!
• Today’s kids don’t know the freedom we had
• Tragedy at Burning Springs – Kermit 1951
• U. M. W. of A. in Logan County
• Uncle Charley Dingess
• Unknown Faces
• Up the Creek Without a Paddle
• Wavolene’s Letter
• Where Have the Days of Our Lives Gone?
• White Cemetery
• Whites Addition
• Whitman Mine Explosion, November 3, 1931
• William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield
• William Anderson Dingess
• WWII and Korean War Veterans of Logan County
• You Can Go Home Again