By Keith Gibson Alexander Buchanan was my great-great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side of the family. His son Thomas was appointed and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on August 29, 1863, and served in the civil war in the 4th Regiment, Company K, of the Volunteer Calvary of West Virginia. The calvary was organized at Parkersburg and Wheeling, […]
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*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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Tales of Ethel, WV by Richard D. Fortner Ethel, WV, was a coal camp in Logan County located on Dingess Run Creek, upstream from the village of Stollings where I grew up. I have often tried to dig out information from her past without much success. Note carefully the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company on the
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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 Bob Piros All of the information found for this story was found at familysearch.org & other online searches. Also thanks to others who knew some of the local history. Giuseppe (Joseph) Scaramuzzino was born December 6, 1883 in Fossalto Italy. Fossalto Italy is a municipality in the Province of Campolasse in Southern Italy. Agriculture
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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 The steam was still rising from the concrete porch of the company store following the downpour that came on a very humid late June afternoon at Verdunville, which like just about every other hollow in Logan County during the 1960’s, was filled with the fun-loving spirits of young people whose world consisted
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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