Appalachian History

This ends a very favorable April with just about enough rain

“Fulton Caldwell, now a prosperous farmer and a leading citizen, was born on the Caldwell homestead in 1833,” says his 1887 biography.

“In this county Godfrey L. Cabot of Boston, MA has the largest carbon factory in the world,” stated the WV Geological Survey in 1911.

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

Clogging is an expressive style of American dance with origins in the folk dances of the British Isles, Africa, and pre-Columbian America.

Groceries were from all different places. Some I bought from wholesale grocers in Stanton. Some from different places in this state.

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