Buchanan Family History and Tragedy

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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Railroad History of Logan County

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Ethel, WV

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Earling, WV

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Logan’s Telephone 1905 – 1952

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Early Travel in Logan County

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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Joseph (S. Joe) Scaramuzzino

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Recalling one of the worst floods in Logan

Recalling one of the worst floods in Logan Read More »

The porch sitters

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History before our eyes

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