History of Logan County

History of Logan County, West Virginia

This page lists the articles on this website and few external websites about the history of Logan County, West Virginia.

The Old Courthouse Bell at Chief Logan Park

Wayne Worth – On the Road in West Virginia: Our 55 Counties,
Logan County Segment

• “Boots” was anything but a normal coal miner
• 1925 Directory of Logan
• 1934 Logan County
• 1951 – Logan teacher sells $50,000 of War Bonds, wins contest
• A 1932 murder leaves many questions today
• A Gaping Black Mouth – MacBeth 1937
• A History of Logan
• A stringent look into the history of Logan County
• Alderson helped elevate Logan to greatness
• Altizer Family of Man
• Aracoma Hotel History
• Battle of Blair Mountain
• Battle of the Island
• Bits of History and Nostalgia
• 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
• Changes in Logan during the year 1912
• City losing another historical structure
• Coal Company Scrip
• Dark as a Dungeon – Holden, March 8, 1960
• Death of the Hatfield brothers
• Dehue Company Store Closing
• Development of Education
• Does Mamie Thurman Still Walk Those Hills?
• Don Chafin
• Don Chafin and the Battle of Blair Mountain
• Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
• Early 1900s Logan was crime infused with soap opera
• Early Life In Logan County
• Early Logan Co.: A mighty tough place to live
• Early Logan County was a ‘mess’
• Early Travel in Logan County
• English credited with discovering coal in Logan Co.
• Every building in downtown Logan has a story
• Farming and Homesteads
• Final Thoughts
• Finding Princess Aracoma
• Fires change course of Logan’s history
• Floyd D. Stollings
• Frank Stewart Martin – Logan Bottling Company
• Gay Coal and Coke Company
• Growing up with the Company Store
• Harris Funeral Home
• Hatfield and Chafin clans played large role in Logan history
• Hatfield Pioneers
• Henlawson, WV
• Henry Clay Ragland
• History before our eyes
• History of Cherry Tree
• Jack Dempsey’s Childhood Home
• Logan Co. people with national interest
• Logan County Courthouse 1875-1905
• Logan County Featured Videos
• Logan County is rich with Native American history
• Logan High School almost missed being on the island
• Logan was a focal point of Tommy gun sales
• Logan Wildcats
• Logan’s Boulevard has a storied history
• Logan’s Old City Cemetery
• Logan’s Telephone 1905 – 1952
• Lyburn Mine Fire
• McDonald Family of Logan County
• Memories of the Hinchman Home
• Mid-1930s were a wild time in Logan County
• Mine Wars
• Monumental efforts gave us our ‘Doughboy’
• Mount Gay, WV
• My Memories of Logan
• Newspaper and Radio
• Number Please?
• Post Offices, Logan County, West Virginia
• Railroad History of Logan County
• Recalling one of the worst floods in Logan
• Recollections of old stores and “filling” stations
• Remembering some of the coal camp communities
• Remembering the Community of Holden 22
• Rev. Uncle Dyke Garrett
• Rossmore Mine
• Searching for the Holland grave
• Spiritually reuniting Logan’s pioneer couple
• The Civil War in Logan County
• The Creation of Logan County
• The Development of Medicine In Logan County
• The Doughboy Honors Heroes
• The End of an Era
• The end the Hatfield political dominance
• The First Logan High School
• The historic cemetery in Logan
• The Historical Hinchman House
• The journey of Logan’s Woman’s Club
• 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 Reverends and the Revenuers
• The Train Station
• Thomas Dunn English
• U. M. W. of A. in Logan County
• William Anderson Dingess

• County history and school system (pdf) courtesy of James W. Baldwin.
• 1933 Map of Logan County (pdf)

More history of Logan County on these other websites:

• 1910 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Logan, West Virginia
• History of the city of Logan, W. Va. 1823-1916 by George Thomas Swain
• LOC 1915 Logan County coalfield map
• History of WLOG
• History of WVOW
• McCormick’s part in the history of Logan County
• Stirrat, WV
• Logan County history by Robert Y. Spence
• Where, When and Who of WV Locations

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