Appalachian History

They are: the Horton Mill Bridge, the Swann Covered Bridge (also called the Joy Covered Bridge or Swann-Joy Covered Bridge), & Easley Bridge.

Christmas Eve at a Lumber Camp

Davis, WV lumber camp woodsman asks Superintendent Danford Blair Smith to write out a dictated letter to the woodsman’s mother.

When Jack was growin’ up, his daddy give him a brand new shotgun for Christmas. Jack was as proud as a peacock over this new gift.

Captain Hager owned extensive tracts of land in the present Washington County, Md. In 1762 he laid out a town, which he named Elizabeth Town.

That next fall we moved back up to Conover, and he got work, too, in the glove mill, and we both worked there. He turned.