Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Legal profession

I have always worked with men

She was nominated as a Democratic candidate for NC’s House of Representatives 2 months before the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920.

“I went hunting with two men. The young man got killed out in the woods and the other man told evry body that I killed him.”

The Dahlonega gold rush was the original, and it kicked off 21 years before the California event we usually associate with that phrase.

Randolph County, WV’s wealth of natural resources set the stage for the Courthouse War of the 1890s between the towns of Beverly and Elkins.

From 1830 to 1840, though embracing a period of great financial distress, yet was included a period of great improvement in Huntsville, AL.

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