Appalachian History

May 26, 2017 Ohio / Railroad industry

Final run of the Bellaire, Zanesville, and Cincinnati Railway

On the long grades, when the ‘Bent, Zig-zag and Crooked’ was heavily loaded, passengers sometimes got off and walked along side, even pushed on some occasions.

aerial of honor wall with laura copenhaver statue

Laura Lu, Lay Leader of Lutherans

Laura Lu Scherer Copenhaver wrote fiction, poetry, & church pageants. One of her poems, “Heralds of Christ,” became a well-known hymn.

May 24, 2017 Appalachian crime / Bootlegging/bootleggers

The bootleg capital of Ohio

New Straitsville was considered the Bootleg Capital of Ohio during the Depression. Its enterprising ex-coalminers concealed dozens of stills.

May 23, 2017 Appalachian crime / Georgia

He jumped on the bed, held his wife down and shot her through the head

In this partial court transcript, Eugene W. Beck is indicted for the murder of his wife Ella. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Kentucky & Tennessee Railway steam engine in stearns, ky

May 22, 2017 Coal mining / Kentucky / Place names

Stearns KY emerges out of the Big Survey

Justus Stearns heard reports of vast tracts of virgin timber in the southern Kentucky counties of Pulaski, Wayne, and Whitley.

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