Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Charles Holzer builds the first general hospital in SE Ohio

Dr. Charles Elmer Holzer recognized the need for a community hospital. He converted a private home into a 7-bed infirmary in Gallipolis, OH.

Kentuckian Sarah Ann Jackson’s 1835 diary was found between the walls of an old house in Laurel County, KY.

“Telegraphy was interesting work. It was a big responsibility then. At that time it was harder for a woman to get a job.”

Alabama’s oldest Baptist congregation will be 208 years old this year. Or not, depending on whom you ask. Both churches remain active today.

They retreated the mine back almost to the drift mouth, to the entrance of the mine, so [the Blue Diamond Mine] was quite a successful.