Appalachian History

Indoor privies for country people at Cumberland Homesteads

Cumberland Homesteads community came into being as part of a nationwide New Deal agrarian movement to create subsistence farm communities.

In addition to her grandmother, Dora Mae reluctantly admitted that her other banjo muse came to her in the form of her “haunted banjo.”

The U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service mandates that states allowing wild ginseng’s export have protective regulations in place.

Sidna Allen & Wesley Edwards, members of the outlaw gang who murdered Judge Massie and others at Hillsville Court House were arrested today.

Melville Davisson Post’s third book ‘Dwellers in the Hills’ (1901) is a romance of the old WV cattle country in which his youth was passed.