Logan County Main Photo Gallery

Logan County, West Virginia Photos You can help preserve our Logan County history and memories by sharing your vintage photos with us. To share a photo, please email it to the admin at loganwv.us@gmail.com. Please note that you must own the photo you are submitting or ensure that no one has a copyright claim on

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Rum Creek, WV

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

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Logan WV April 1999

Logan County, WV Communities and Towns

Logan County was formed in 1824 from sections of Cabell, Giles, Kanawha and Tazewell counties. Logan County and Logan city is named for the famous Indian chief of the Mingo tribe, Chief Logan. The city of Logan is the county seat. Logan was first established as Lawnsville in 1827. The town was first incorporated in

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Clarence Stacy – Cherry Tree Resident Makes Good

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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Lost In Chief Logan State Park

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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Cherry Tree Map/Residents

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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Memories of Cherry Tree by Mrs. Helen (Tarkany) Piros

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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Pilgrim Holiness Church

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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