Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

WV’s largest caverns: Seneca Caverns. Huge chambers, majestic views for visitors…hiding places for bootleggers, horse thieves & murderers.

“If you didn’t do it right, then they’d run you off”

King Coal built the company town in WV. Miners worked at the company mine, shopped at the company store and lived in company houses.

According to Hemlock, WV area resident Stacy Hinkle, the rough winter weather may have been why many Hemlock natives moved away.

My father left the room for a few minutes, and while I was waiting for him, the quarters fell off the person’s face and the sheet moved!

Louie Wohinc dominated central WV’s glass industry in the 1920s and 1930s. His factories produced 144,000 pieces of glass every 24 hours!