Appalachian History

America’s only woman ironmaster

Nannie Kelly Wright was probably the only woman ironmaster in US history. Her father helped form Cincinnati’s White Collar packet line.

I never think of Shea’s Fork without my mind reverting back to that dismal, heartless day in the long ago.

She went to town, bought me a pair of shoes for two dollars and nineteen cents, and that was . . . you know, you only got one pair a year.

The Dingle was wilderness when Nemacolin, a Delaware chief, & Thomas Cresap, a MD frontiersman, first blazed a trail through here.

The court papers disbarring Thomas Hicks made no mention of the black-market babies. The abortion charges against him were dropped.