West Virginia Photos

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This is a collection photos about the beauty and wonders of the state, its history, and its people. If you have any interesting vintage West Virginia postcards or photos you’d like to share, please email them to loganwv.us@gmail.com.

Freeze Fork, Logan County, WV
Freeze Fork, Logan County, WV Oct. 1935 Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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West Virginia Photos

Many other vintage photos are also in our Main Gallery, Holden Gallery, Man Gallery and Omar Gallery.  Here is a list of all of our Logan County Galleries. You may also enjoy the link below.

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14 thoughts on “West Virginia Photos”

  1. Your one 1938 photo suposedly of Welch has been determined to not be of Welch. I can’t remember where it is but not Welch. Might check with Alan Cathead Johnston and he might remember where it actually is.

  2. I was born in Mingo County and grew up in Wyoming County in the 30’s 40’s and 50’s. I enjoyed looking at all the photos. They brought back many memories.

  3. My grandmother, Betty Antrim (Lankas) grew up in Logan in the 30s-40s. I am researching for genealogy, as well as trying to find pictures to show my grandma. Her dad was a coal miner but died in April 1942 in a coal mining accident. Thanks for putting together this website!

  4. Currently researching my family. A small pocket of my ancestors moved to Logan County in 1920 for reasons completely unknown to me. They had no ties to the area and were from a few states away. Anyone know if there was a booming industry of some sort that would have drawn them to relocate here for a single year?

    1. Gretchen, Coall Mining was the industry.
      Lots of stories on this website about the
      coal miners

      You might want to contact Mike Taylor on
      this site about coal mining.

      See the story, Whitman Mine Explosion.

  5. I was born in Logan WV. in 1964. We lived in Crooked Creek for my first 2 years of life and we then moved to North Carolina. My kin folks were the Kerns and the Sellards. Our family used to visit WV in the summer to see my grandfolks and my aunt and uncle, who lived in Logan. We had so much fun visiting and playing with all the kids in the alley behind Fran and Clark’s(uncle and aunt) house.

    My birth name is Dawn Thomas, but I changed it in 1997. Thanks for your site!

  6. Sandra Touchstone

    I grew up in WV, remember going to Hawks Nest with my mother and sisters all the time, and going to the Camden Park, riding the roller coaster was the best

  7. I found this website on FB but am currently accessing directly. Sharing the address with siblings as we all grew up in West Virginia but are all now living in other states.
    Really enjoying your content.

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