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"A Brief History of the Schools of Marshall County,"
Moundsville Echo, 4-26-1924.
"A Community History of Glen Easton," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 12-13-1929.
"Allen School Community in Marshall County...," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 1-15-1943.
"An Old Newspaper of Marshall County," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"An Historical Record Marshall County's First 100 Years,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 8-30-1935.
"Arrival of 1st Comet Since Halley's in 1910 Listed June 26,"
Wheeling Sunday News, 6-5-1927.
"Bellton Once Industrial Village...in Marshall County," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 10-2-1942.
"Benwood, A Town That Used to Laugh," Wheeling News
Register, 9-26-1982.
"Big Run Community in Marshall Co., Its Name From Creek of Section,
Echo, 5-1-1939.
"Boy Scout Leaders See Historic Mound," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Building a Dream," Huntington Herald Dispatch,
10-21-1984.
"C.B. Allman Loaned Cuts of Early Scenes," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Cameron Drug Store Owners Celebrate 100 Years of Service," News
Register, 12-16-1997.
"Copies of County History Placed in Schools," Moundsville
Journal, 7-21-1927.
"County Health Unit," Moundsville Daily Echo, 8-1935.
"County History to be Compiled," Wheeling News Register,
3-26-1978.
"Crystal Sand Co. Modern Builders...," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Director Wiant Made Playground Picture," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Dulaney-Miller Auto Co. Paces Used Car Field," Moundsville
Daily Echo, 8-1935.
"E. F. Bowman Wrote History Wayne Ridge, Marshall Co.," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 10-9-1942.
"Early History of Marshall County," n.p n.d.
"Early School Days Recalled at Glen Dale," Wheeling News
Register, 6-6-1965.
"Early History of Marshall Co.," Moundsville Daily Echo,
n.d.
"Early History of Marshall County by Scott Powell," n.p. n.d.
"Early Document Sent Patriot Tells Formation of County,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 3-21-1941.
"End of Leave End of Glen Easton Mall," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 6-19-1995.
"Ex-Marshall Assessor Guilty," Wheeling Register,
7-31-1995.
"Farming With Ox Team," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Fish Creek Sixty and Seventy Years Ago," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 7-2-1937.
"Five Banks Serve County," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Fork Ridge Baptist Church," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Founder of Henderson Store Started as Lad," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Franklin Community History Dates Back to Year of 1772,"
Wheeling Intelligencer, 8-11-1942.
"Fredonia and Mount Hobart Communties of Marshall Co.,"
Moundsville Journal, n. d.
"Freshman Students Sketch History of Marshall Co., Moundsville
Daily Echo, 6-15-1934.
"Future of Cameron's Railroad Depot Unclear," Wheeling News
Register, 8-11-1996.
"Gem of Historic Tradition Slips Out of Reach," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 6-11-1996.
"George Washington Once Owned Round Bottom Sold to McClean,"
Moundsville Echo, 8-1935.
"Georgetown Community Marshall Co. Has Its First Woman Teacher,"
Intelligencer, 3-7-1941.
"Gorby Community in Meade District Has History back 175 Years,"
Intelligencer, 5-31-1939.
"Grandview Sanatorium," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Grave Yard Run," Moundsville Daily Echo, n. d.
"Grayville School," Wheeling Intelligencer, 7-2-1942.
"Greenwood School Was First Standard School in Marshall,"
Wheeling Intelligencer, 6-26-1942.
"Hall School Located Near Famous Indian Warrior's Trail,"
Wheeling Intelligencer, n.d.
"Hare Krishna Temple is Labor of Love," Wheeling News
Register, 8-23-1978.
"Historic Cabin in Glendale to be Razed," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 9-27-1995.
"Historical Sketches of Marshall County," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 1-19-1924.
"Historical Sketches of Marshall Co., Pioneer Wedding,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 1-25-1924.
"Historical Society Commemorating 15 Years of Existence,"
Wheeling News Register, 1-7-1998.
"History of Clouston Community... at Methodist Church,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 6-23-1929.
"History of Dallas Community," Moundsville Journal,
1-9-1925.
"History Walnut Grove Community Sand Hill District, Marshall Co.,"
Intelligencer, 12-11-1939.
"History of Kausooth Community Told By J. B. Gray," Moundsville
Daily Echo, 5-19-1939.
"History of County Newspapers Traced by Glendale Writer,"
Moundsville Journal, 2-10-1942.
"History of Clay District Schools," Moundsville Daily Echo,
6-22-1922.
"History of Pleasant Valley Community," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 3-1-1923.
"History of Early Schools in Marshall County," Moundsville
Echo, n.d.
"History of Wood Hill Community Dates Back in 1748," Wheeling
Intellegencer, 9-11-1942.
"History of County is Reviewed by Student," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 1-24-1934.
"History of Graysville, Hornsbrook's Old Mill," Moundsville
Daily Echo, 5-10-1923.
"Impressive Homecoming of 80th Birthday at Allen Grove,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 1932.
"Infirmary Was Early Institution o f County," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"It's a Grand New Flag," Wheeling Intelligencer,
12-26-1988.
"Langin Field in Moundsville Once U. S. Landing Post,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 8-1935.
"Largest Mound in the World is Located in Marshall Co., Wheeling
Sunday News, 6-5-1927.
"Limestone Community in Marshall Co...," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 11-26-1942.
"Little Prince Pythian Lodge Founded 1892," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Lynn Camp is Thriving Community in Southern Marshall Co. on Fish
Creek," n. p. n. d.
"Majorsville is a Prosperous Village in Marshall Co.," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 4-18-1939.
"Marshall County is Rich in Historic Value," Wheeling Sunday
News, 6-5-1927.
"Marshall County Centennial,"Herald Dispatch,
9-13-1935.
"Marshall County Slavery Days... Told...Dr. Will Crow,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 8-13-1937.
"Marshall County Sets New Record WV School Attendance,"
Moundsville Journal, n. d.
"Massacre of the Tush Family, Historical Sketches by Allman," n.p
n.d.
"McDonald School on Fish Creek Siz Miles East of Cameron, WV,"
Intelligencer, 8-28-1942.
"McGuffey Days Being Revived Again," n.p n.d.
"Mercantile is One of State's Better Banks," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Modern Highway Bridge," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"More Centennial Features Are In The Echo Today," Moundsville
Daily Echo, 8-1935.
"Mound Mine Was First Local Mine," Moundsville Daily Echo,
n. d.
"Moundsville County Curthouse," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Moundsville Post Office," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Mr. Williams Writes Account of Early Oil Activities,"
Moundsville Daily Echo, 11-12-1925.
"Nauvoo Community Marshall County...Dating From 1850," n. p. n.
d.
"Never Say Fail in Glendale," Ritchie Gazette,
9-17-1992.
"Oak Dale Community Was Purchsed by Barter," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 5-2-1941.
"Old Vagon Gate at State Prison," Wheeling Sunday News,
6-5-1927.
"Old Bar Member Retired at 89," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Old Burley Brick," Moundsville Daily Echo, 8-1935.
"Old Showplace, F. H. Blade Home," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Palace of Gold, America's Taj Mahal,"Wheeling, WV," Palace Tours,
n.d.
"Pelley Bought First Centennial Echo," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Phone Central Office Opened Here in 1884," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Pioneer School First in Franklin District," Moundsville
Journal, n.d.
"Pleasant Valley," Fairmont Times, 12-29-1940.
"Prabhupada's Palace of Gold," Charleston Daily Mail,
11-16-1983.
"Preserving the Past, A Moundsville Woman Tries Preserve Heritage,"
News Register, 8-6-1995.
"Riggs Community on Roberts Ridge in Marshall County...," n. p. n.
d.
"Riggs School and Community in Marshall Co. Hold Interest,"
Intelligencer, 5-29-1942.
"Rosby's Rock, Marshall Co. Historic Old.... Along Waters Big Grave
Greek," n. d. n. p.
"Sandhill District in Pioneer Days," Moundsville Daily Echo,
1-16-1942.
"School House of the Century," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"Scott Powell's History of Marshall County," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 4-16-1926.
"Sherrard High and Consolidated School One of First in WV,"
Wheeling Intelligencer, 1-3-1942.
"St. Joseph's Community Commended in State Magazine,"
Moundsville Echo, n. d.
"Standard Schools." n.p. n.d.
"Tales of Pioneer Days on Fish Creek," Moundsville Daily
Echo, n. d.
"Taylor's Ridge in Marshall County...," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 4-12-1940.
"Temple Grows as Krishnas Gain Acceptance," Charleston
Gazette, 8-9-1979.
"Ten Veterans of Civil War Still Remain," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"The Next Century in Marshall County," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"The Mystery of Rosbys Rock," Charleston Gazette,
1-25-1970.
"Three Soldier Monuments on Court House Lawn," Moundsville Daily
Echo, 8-1935.
"Time Stands Still in Marshall County Store," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 5-8-1989.
"Tom's Run Community...," Wheeling Intelligencer,
3-15-1940.
"Town Has Dozen Newspapers Since 1831," Moundsville Echo,
11-1-1966.
"Two One Room Schools Function in Meade District, Marshall Co.,"
n.p. n.d.
"Wayman Ridge Community in Marshall Co. Has History," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 9-4-1942.
"Wetzel Brothers...,Once Owners of Marshall Co. Locust Grove,"
Intelligencer, 6-27-1939.
"When Marshall Turkeys Grew Wild," Moundsville Daily Echo,
8-1935.
"When the King of France Claimed Marshall County," Moundsville
Daily Echo, 8-1935.
"Willowdale Community Changed Construction New Road," Wheeling
Intelligencer, 6-17-1942.
"Wolf Run, Marshall Co. Settled 1780; Favorite Hunting Ground of
Indians," n.p n.d.
"Woodruff Community in Liberty District of Marshall Co...,"
Wheeling Intelligencer, 5-12-1939.
"WV State Prison at Moundsville Approximately 1800 Prisoners,"
Sunday News, 6-5-1927.
"Thumbnail Sketches of Interesting Spots, Countryside Communities, Historic References. Seldom Published Facts About Places in Marshall Hills and Valleys," Moundsville Daily Echo, 8-30-1935.
Adaline
Is a farming community extending from the Fair bridge with a store
nearby to the old site of Ormley's camp on Valley run, which
contained many families during the oil boom, but is only a farm
now, the Yeater store still remaining nearby. Bowers Hole is one of
the famous fishing places. King Cabin Rock is down stream about
halfway to Lynn Camp. No buildings are there, but it reeks with the
inevitable legendary romances that cling to places where Indian
maidens could leap into deep pools of water.
Andersonville
On Harts Run, is near the Pennsylvania line, two miles east of
Woodruff. It is a small village.
Beelers Station
Is not a village but merely farms along the road with a Christian
church as its only public building. It occupies a place in pioneer
history treated elsewhere in this paper.
Bellton
On the B & O and Route 250 within a few miles of the southeast
corner of the county, still bears the name for its post office but
the railroad changed the station name to Denver several years ago.
There is a school building, a Holiness church built of logs under
the direction of a woman pastor a few years ago, two stores and
several families. Oil and gas are produced in small quantities in
all directions.
Big Run
Is on a ridge above the head of Big run on Route 250 about four
miles south of Cameron. It has a Christian church and a school
house and has long been a community center but never was a
village.
Board Tree
Is at the west end of the longest tunnel on the B & O on this
part of the system and is within less than a mile of the
Pennsylvania corner. The village has almost disappeared.
Boggs Island
Is probably unknown to many people outside the old residents of
Benwood and river men, because it cannot be seen except from the
river bank near the Bloch Tobacco Works. It is a small island near
the Ohio shore opposite the mouth of Boggs run and belongs to
Marshall county. There is a channel of waterways between it and the
Ohio shore.
Britt School
On the north bank of Wheeling creek a few miles from Elm Grove has
in recent years become a community center.
Buchanan Hill
On Route 250 a few hundred feet east of the junction with Waymans
ridge road, now has only a cemetery. Until a few years ago Buchanan
Hill United Presbyterian church stood there.
Calis
Formerly called Seatonville, bears the marks of extreme old age and
of the modern day. It is on the eastern edge of the county tow or
three miles south of Wheeling creek and about the same distance
from the Pennsylvania state line. Calis is now on Cameron R. D. 3.
Mount Hope school is now housed in a modern two-room building and
Mt, Hope church is the northern unit of Pleasant Valley circuit of
the M. E. church. About a mile and a half toward Rock Lick was
another famous picnic grove, Phillips Grove. It was turned into
farming land a few years ago.
Captina
Has had several names. It lies on the highway and the railroad a
half mile or more north of the mouth of Fish creek and the railroad
stop called Whittakers fork. Q. Whittakers, who owned the big farm
there many years ago. Note the spelling differs. When the Woodland
Coal company opened a mine there and built a village, it called the
place Wood. Soon the post office of Captina was moved a couple of
miles south of the mining town and the state road department has
placed a sign bearing 'Captina' as that name is now well
established. A two room school and a store are there. Captina post
office had been for several years at the northern end of Cresaps
Bottom and for a few years on one of the McFarland farms on the
hill. Captina creek is on the Ohio side of the river and was a
noted place in Indian days. Steamboat men pronounced the name
'Capteen'. The riffle between the lower end of the island of that
name and the mouth of the creek bore the same name and was one of
the hardest to get a packet boat thru in low water on the entire
river.
Captina Island
Lies at the lower end of Round Bottom, contains one cultivated end
and has a atream of water between it and the West Virginia shore.
Enough watermelons were raised on that island in the early days to
feed a big county fair every year.
Clouston
Is the community just this side of Cameron, centering about the
church which stands where Route 250 crosses the northern fork of
Grave creek, often know as 'Clouston Creek'. It is strong enough to
have held three very successful local fairs recently, tho none is
planned for this year. Their centennial next year. The M. E. Church
there will celebrate its centennial anniversary nwxt year, and
plans for that observance are already being considered. The present
building is 48 years old. This church sent a mission out to Cameron
that developed into the church there. What is said to be the
greatest revival in Marshall county was held at Clouston by Rev. T.
B. Hughes, father of the Bishop who is to speak at the Centennial
religious program in Moundsville. Perhaps three hundred people live
in this community which extends north up to Poplar Springs,
northeast nearly to Rock lick, a mile down and a mile and half up
the creek, and south to the edge of Cameron. The name comes from
the family of Clouston which once owned much land there. There are
still descendants there but none bears that name.
Cresaps
In the northern end of Cresap Bottom had about fifty houses while
the mine was in operation, some of them were razed to straighten
Route 2 and others to get lumber for sanitation work in the welfare
movement. The mine tipple has been torn away. The mine was one of
the best laid out under ground in the Ohio valley. Baker's Fort was
near where the village is and pioneers were killed by Indians while
crossing the river. Some bandits who robbed the Soarfield, Ohio,
bank several years ago just before auto days, drove to Powhatan,
crossed the river in a skiff while a hail of bullets were fired
down stream at the mouth of Graveyard run at the north end of
Cresaps Bottom, lost one of the sacks of money at the tree over
that stream and a bad wounded man walked up the railroad and up Hog
run and died near a ledge if rocks and the others were supposed to
have climbed the hill at Graveyard run and come over the hill to
Moundsville and boarded a street car. Cresaps Grove a favorite
place for steamboats to take a picnic croos to, was but a short
distance from the present town. An old Episcopal chapel, now owned
by the Methodist church is nearby. A school is in the village.
Crows Grove
Is one of the noted picnic grounds in Marshall county. It is on the
hard surfaced road between Fork ridge and Glen Easton. Colored camp
meetings were held there for several years.
Dallas
Is a real village or small town in the extreme northeastern corner
of the county. It lies like a crescent with each tip in Ohio
county, the eastern one almost touching the Pennsylvania state
line. It is a very old village and is marked on old maps as West
Union. That is the name of the large Presbyterian church. The
minister's home adjoins it. A Methodist church is also located in
the town and the minister of Dallas and Sand Hill churches resides
there. Dallas has a community fair of more than ordinary size and
interest, an I. O. O. F. two-story hall, a school building, stores,
a well kept cemetery, blacksmith shop, a former hotel building and
until a few years ago an undertaking establishment was there. When
there were doctors in rural communities there always was one or two
located at Dallas. An R. D. mail route starts there.
Fairview-Ella
Franklin district is a real village or town, because the lots were
surveyed in usual town shape. It is situated 2 miles from the Ohio
river, near where Burch, Wayne and Rine ridges converge. A nearly
new Christian church, modern rural school, store and gasoline
pumps, and about eight families constitute the village. It was
founded about ten years before the Civil war and was known as Ella
post office until discontinued and placed on Woodland R. D. 1 and
on Proctor R. D. 1.
Fairview Ridge
Is the main route to the east since it has become Route 250. It
begins where First street, Moundsville, ends. Many town folks have
bought an acre of more and built homes along the highway. The
school house burned and it is a part of Limestone consolidated
school territory. An M. E. church is a part of Marshall
circuit.
Fish Creek
Has several oft-referred-to places between its mouth and headwaters
that are not villages nor even hamlets. Bannen bridge and
Meadowdale church are near the Wetzel county line. A store was
there one time but it and the post office have vanished. At the
forks of the creek, Kausooth post office existed until a few years
ago. A store is still there and the Girl Scout camp has given the
place new interest.
Fish Creek Island
Contains about forty acres of fine farming land at the mouth of
Fish creek. It is above all floods except bank sweepers. Several
years ago the man who then owned it put an elevator in the barn to
raise his livestock to the loft during the floods. Nobody has
resided on the island for several years.
Glen Easton
Has perhaps created more history than any other town of its size in
this part of the state. It was an active spot before the B & O
Railroad was built. The town was named by a railroad contractor who
came from Easton, PA., and prefixed the word 'Glen'. The Harris
flour mill and the large aviary of J. M. Harris were interesting
sights to passengers on the railroad trains as far back as people
can remember. A large hall of the Jr. O. U. A. M. burned a few
years ago. At one time four general stores and a millinery store
was there. It was an important unloading place for oil drilling
equipment and for lumber sawed in that region. A creamery was built
there too early the farmers did not have enough cows and the good
roads and automobiles had not yet come to bring cream from very
many miles around, but it showed the enterprise of the people. Two
doctors lived there for many years and Dr. Will F. Crow is there
yet, he being the only country doctor now in the Panhandle. A
railroad telegraph office was there until a few years ago. A small
brick yard was maintained for a few years. The town has a two-room
school and one church.
Glendale-McMechen Heights
Lie on top of the ridge several hundred feet above the Glendale
Narrows highway and electric railway. Both villages are almost the
newest in the county, rivaling Grave Creek and Kent for that
distinction. The road is hard surfaced from Glendale up the hill,
along the ridge and out to Sherrard or down the Reilly hill to the
lowest end of McMechen.
Gorbys Grove
On Bowman ridge was the scene of picnics until about ten years
ago.
Goudy Forks
Is where the Sherrard road joins Moundsville road, Route 250. The
Goudy family owned all the land there many years ago and still owns
a farm at the foot of the slight hill.
Grave Creek
Was established several years ago when the Manufacturers Light and
Heat company erected a large gas pumping plant about midway between
Moundsville and Rosbys Rock. A school was built there.
Graysville
Is still growing slowly and presents a youthful appearance as well
as the dignity of age. In olden days most of the trade of Fish
creek came down there to mill and to buy goods. Foundations of
fortunes were laid there. The Girl Scout camp was there for some
years and houses are always in demand during the summer. A store,
filling station, school, M. E. Church, creek and trees make it a
nice place for people to want to move to. It has good road on each
side of Fish creek from the river, which is a mile and a half
away.
Green Valley
Is the name of the road extending due east from Cameron two miles
to Pennsylvania state line. A church is located there.
Hatton Hall
Is a landmark on the Sherrard road which in olden times was
officially known as the Wheeling and Fairmont pike. The Hall is a
two story lodge building located nearer Goudy Forks on the
Moundsville road than it is to Sherrard and in addition to being
the home of one of the oldest I. O. O. F. Lodges in this part of
the state. Hatton Lodge no. 19 it has been the scene of many
picnics and festivals and other outdoor gatherings.
Howard
Never was a village but always has had a post office. It is between
Fish creek and the Wetzel county line on Greenfield ridge.
Kates Rock
Probably forgotten by 99 of every 100 people living about here was
famous in early steamboat days, but most of it disappeared when the
Ohio River railroad was built in the Glendale Narrows and had to
blast a road bend in the great rock. It is just above the old
Glendale mine siding.
Kent
Is a new town opposite Clarington, Ohio, in the upper end of Wells
Bottom. The railroad station is called Clarington Station. As long
as the post office was there it was called Welcome, which was also
the name of the school. More than a dozen years ago when additions
to towns were being laid out and sold at big auction sales, with
balloon ascensions and other features to attract crowds, a company
bought the Cyrus Yoho farm, in early days owned by the Wells
Family, which is marked by double row of pine trees leading from
the highway to the brick house. A town was laid out named Kent and
a number of fine, modern homes have been built. The Hope Natural
Gas company has a regulating station and telegraph operator at the
point where their great pipelines cross the Ohio river on the way
to Cleveland.
Limestone
Is one of the largest village communities. The village is the
center of a community which in the days when there was a post
office there, included Waymans ridge, Wood Hill, Dowlers ridge,
Fairview and Oak Dale. There was a road blazed thru from Wheeling
to Limestone as early as 1796. Th old R. S. Peters hotel was built
of burned brick in 1882. A private school was started in 1830 under
one Green. Other early teachers were Hiram Coffin, William Morgan
and John McCooloch. The new consolidated school, opened in 1925, is
fine example of the modern tend in schools. It replaced Waymans
ridge, Limestone, Allen, Wood Hill and Fairview school. The
Limestone Presbyterian church was organizedMay 24, 1870, with Rev.
D. H. Lafferty as its first pastor. The building was recently
overhauled and a very attractive brick veneer was applied. Valley
Star council Jr. O. U. A. M. No. 60 was chartered March 2, 1893,
and has since been an active lodge with its own hall in
Limestone.
Loudenville
Is down the railroad two miles this side of Cameron, further tied
thereto by a narrow brick road. The name comes from Joseph
Loudenslager who came there from Wolf run almost a century ago, and
owned 700 acres of land there. When the railroad came thru, he
moved his mill into what is now Loudenville. That is gone, and now
there are but the homes of 80 or a hundred people, the church and
school, and now idle oil storage tanks.
Lower Graysville
Is on the Ohio river at the mouth of Coon run, one mile south of
the mouth of Fish creek. In early days it was known as Higgs
Landing, and when the Ohio River railroad was built the flag
station there was called Franklin, but the railroad changed it
before the World War to Lower Graysville, making it quite a much
older village on Fish creek a mile and a half from the mouth . A
store, school and a few houses constitute Lower Graysville on
Woodland R. D. 1.
Lynn Camp
At the mouth of Lynn Camp run, received its name when it was all
wilderness and a party of deer camped there one fall and early
winter. It has been a village as far back as memory goes and during
the oil boom had many frame and canvas dwellings. The only M. E.
Church south in Marshall county is in this village. A thriving
Sunday school is maintained as well as a good public school. Next
south is Meighen at the mouth of Lower Bowman run. It formerly had
two stores, but now only one. Slippery Ford once a fording on a
continuous sheet of rock in the bottom of the creek, now has a
bridge. Johnson's once had a mill and the most beehives that could
be found in Marshall county.
Mason-Dixon Line
Marking the Marshall-Wetzel division line and the place where the
Mason and Dixon line would have reached the Ohio river had it
extended west instead of turning north near Board Tree. It is on
the eastern side of the highest way two hundred feet north of Dry
run. Half a mile south of the monument is the old village of
Proctor at the mount of Proctor creek. It was an important trading
place and lumber shipping point in the early days. It had a flour
and sawmill. A railroad station, post office, Methodist church, tow
stores, funeral director and the usual accomodations for motorists,
as well as many families constitute the village.
Majorsville
Was a small village and post office with two stores on the northern
fork of the Wheeling creek many years ago, a run passing through
the village exactly on the state line between this state and
Pennsylvania. Several years ago oil and were developed in that
locality, resulting in considerable increase in the number of
houses. A pump station gives employment to people, as well as the
other work of an oil field. A church is on the Pennsylvania side
and the school on the West Virginia side.
Maters Fork
Is the junction of Roberts, Bowman and Taylors ridge roads. Union
School is on Roberts ridge where Kansas ridge road joins from the
west and Freeland or Shoestring ridge road joins from the east. It
is a hamlet and a two-room school, scene of noteworthy literary
societies and political meetings in the past.
McKeefrey
Is a mining town of approximately half of hundred houses in the
loer end of Round Bottom. A post office is there.
Mount Olivet
On Wheeling R. D. 2, has a Methodist Episcopal church a few hundred
feet inside of Marshall county between Sherrard and Wheeling. It
enjoys the distinction of having one of the first and one of the
best rural community building in the state, built and owned by the
Woman's Society of the church and is used for all manner of
community gatherings. The church is the northern most of Marshall
circuit, other being Pleasant Hill at Sherrard, Wood Hill near
Goudy Forks and Fairview on the hilltop northeast of
Moundsville.
Mozart
Lies on the hilltop overlooking the Ohio river partly in Marshall
and partly in Ohio county and is a part of the over flow of
Wheeling. At one time it was called Mozart Park, but Park was
discontinued many years ago and divided into lots. The school there
is supported jointly by the two counties.
Nauvoo
On a ridge bearing the same name, between Glen Easton and Fish
creek, is not a village but has modern brick rural school building
and a Reorganized Church of Latterday Saints and is a voting place
of Meade district, precinct No. 3.
New Bethel
On the Glen Easton road leading from Bowman ridge, is the site of a
Christian church established in 1840. Joe Wilson built the church.
The original log church was replaced by the new frame church in
1880. Rev. M. S. Spear and Rev. Hugh Wayt were natives of the New
Bethel community.
Nuss
Formerly called Georgetown, is a hamlet a mile north of Board Tree
within a few hundred feet of the state line.
Oak Grove
M. E. Church on Fork ridge five miles out of Moundsville is one of
the county's oldest churches. Mr. and Mrs. Miles B. Pierce have in
their possession the original deed for the land on which the church
now stands, where by Constantine O'Neal and wife gave it to
trustees John Barton, John Bonar and David Bonar, for the purposes
of the Methodist Church of America. March 30, 1812, was the date of
the deed, recorded in Ohio county. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce attended
services in the log church, which was either the second or third.
One burned. The present building was built in 1879, dedicated that
November. So it is itself fifty-six years old. It has always been
on a circuit , now on the Moundsville circuit of Methodist
Churches.
Pioneer
Has had a school and usually a store for many years. It is almost
on the Marshall-Wetzel line and almost at the place where the road
to St. Joseph starts to descend the hill to cross Whetstone run. No
village.
Pleasant Valley
Is on a ridge near the center of Marshall county on Route 250. It
has always been an important center and had on of the earliest
farmers' institutes anywhere in West Virginia. Its post office was
abandoned and it is now on Cameron R. D. 4. The minister of
Pleasant Valley circuit resides there. It has always had stores and
blacksmiths. Noteworthy political meetings have been scattered
throughout its history.
Poplar Springs
Is the old Ingram homestead at the junction of the roads to
Waynesburg, Moundsville and Cameron. It was a drover's stand, where
cattle men taking droves of cattle thru to Baltimore and the east
would stop for the night. There were cattle pens and three watering
troughs provided. A spring bubbled up at the roots of a poplar, and
gave the place the name. Ingram built his house over it, and the
spring still bubbles up in the cellar. The house today stands
vacant. The great barn went of pieces some years ago, and now only
the floor platform is left. A man was killed in erecting that barn,
when a heavy piece fell.
Rock Lick
Is an old village where the Wheeling and Fairmont Pike crossed the
line into Pennsylvania. It was named for a spring or 'lick' where
the deer came. The lick is still there, down over the hill from the
middle of town on the south side of the road. The water is rather
heavy in mineral salts, and people have come there to get it. The
Presbyterian church is an old brick structure. Behind it stands the
log building where church and school were once held. It is now a
sheep and hog shed. The brick church burned out and new wood work
was put in. The post office was first called Rock; then Lick; then
Rock Lick; and is now discontinued.
Rosbys Rock
Historic Point on B & O Road Rosbys Rock lying seven miles east
of Moundsville is an historic spot in Marshall county. It was at or
near the rock from which the village takes its name that opposite
ends of the railroad one coming westward from Baltimore, the other
eastward from Wheeling were joined on Christmas eve, 1852. The
Rosbys Rock is a huge boulder popularly believed to have fallen
from the hillside above, hundreds of years before. A half mile
westward from the rock grew up the village of Rosbys Rock, which
for more than a half century was an exceptionally active trading
and shipping point and where fair sized fortunes have accumulated.
On the rock for which the village was named is the inscription
'Rosbys Rock Track Closed Christmas Eve-1852. The rock is said to
have named for Roseby Carr, boss of one of the track gangs that
completed the line. It is railroad tradition that Roseby Carr's son
was boss of the gang that worked to meet the gang bossed by the
elder Carr. A boisterous celebration is said to have taken place
after thelast spike was driven, and one man is said to have been
drowned in Big Grave creek during the festivities. Rosbys Rock is
kept freshly painted by workmen of the B & O railroad and is
one of the historical points in that whole system. The present day
Rosbys Rock village maintains a post office tow room grade school
and a Methodist church. R. G. Dakan and Son operate a general store
and the post office.
Sand Hill
Is a small village near the center of the district of the same
name. There once was a post office but now it is on Elm Grove R. D.
It contains a store, a Methodist church and a school as well as
homes.
Sherrard
Is another of the Marshall county communities to have received high
places in the state community scoring contests of recent years. It
lies along the Sherrard road north of Gudy Forks blending finally
into Mozart and Bethlehem. It was named for Sherrard Clemens,
representative form Virginia to Congress, who secured the post
office there. There is still a post office but it has no rural
routes. The surrounding region is served by routes from Wheeling
and Elm Grove. The first rural consolidated high school in the
state was established in Sherrard. The Joseph Koltz farm there is
the site of Ft. Clarks, of Indian days. Allen Grove Presbyterian
church is there. It was built in 1852 the original building still
being used. The land was given by john Allen. The church known as
Pleasant Hill till Allen died, and then the name was changed to
Allen Grove. Pleasant Hill M. E. Church stands nearby.
State Corner
Monument at the angle where West Virginia and Pennsylvania corner
is in a slight hollow near Board Tree Tunnel. It may be reached by
walking north from the foot of Board Tree hill on Route 250 or by
going north on the side road between Route 250 and Board Tree and
walking east. The name given the place by Mason & Dixon line
surveyors was Bored Tree because they camped there and not having a
tree with low limbs to hang camp supplies on out of reach of
animals they bored holes in a tree and drove in pegs.
St. Joseph
Sometimes called the German Settlement, is a distinctive community
of this part of the state, lying on the Marshall-Wetzel line about
six miles back from the river, most of it in Marshall county,
extending from Fish creek to a few miles into Wetzel county near
Newdale and Antioch. A number of German families migrated there in
the period from the early 1840 to the latter part of that century
buying the land from Isaac Hoge who had acquired it in a large
tract from th ones who received a grant from Virginia. Almost every
family residing in the community is a member of the Roman Catholic
church called St. Joseph. It is on the top of the highest knob in
that locality and may be seen for a long distance. It is a
beautiful structure, quite large. On the road at the foot of the
knob is the Parochial school taught by two Sisters. The community
building consisting of an auditorium on the upper floor, which is
on a level with the road, and a dining hall on the lower or
basement floor, which has windows on three sides, is in the group.
Many gatherings of county- wide interest are held there. The
rectory, a fine type of dwelling house, is on the same property. A
large spring is an interesting part of the premises. The farmers of
St. Joseph always have been industrious and were prosperous before
oil was discovered under nearly every farm. The older generation is
gone and the second generation is all now past middle age. The
younger generation is of the same sturdy, enterprising industrious
character. It is tradition that no St. Joseph farm has ever been
sold under the hammer. A hard surface road leads to Moundsville vis
Lynn Camp, and a road is now being hard surfaced to connect with
the splendid road to Proctor. Another road needs only a few miles
to be improved to connect with fine Burch ridge road to Woodland.
Before the days of rural mail delivery there always was a post
office in the heart of St. Joseph. In the years of the oil boom
another post office, called Teutonia, was located in the Squire
Breiding store toward Lynn Camp. Now mail for the entire community
goes to Proctor R. D. 1.
Terrill School
On Fork ridge and nearby Universalist church were historic centers
in Civil war days an even before. The school was a noted place for
public meetings and as a voting precinct where Glen Easton cast
ballots.
Top of Round Bottom Hill
Is finest view of river, city, river bottom farms, mining, factory
and railroad train smoke to be seen from a main highway traveled by
tourists anywhere along the entire course of the Ohio river from
Pittsburgh to Cairo. Moundsville occupies a bowl in the hills at
the sharpest bend in the Ohio river, an acute angle. River bottom
from the river bank at foot of Seventh street to the foot of the
hill at the eastern edge of the bottom land north of eastern Fourth
is two miles wide. The bottom from the northern end of Glendale to
the mouth of Big Grave creek is a little more than four miles long.
Most of this vast bottom is high above the 1884 flood of 52 feet 4
inches and the 1913 flood of 52 feet 6 inches.
Two Bridges
Is a few miles east of Moundsville where the B & O crosses Big
Grave creek twice within a few rods.
Three Bridges
Is where the same thing occurs between Rosbys Rock tunnel and Glen
Easton.
The Falls
A swimming place, is not far down stream.
Viola
On the north side of Wheeling creek in Sand Hill district, is an
important crossing of that stream by travelers from Moundsville to
the central an eastern part of Sand Hill district. It is an old
village and until the rural routes covered the country was a post
office. One of two stores and a blacksmith shop always have been
part of it. Moundsville R. D. 3 ends at Viola. Most of the central
country is on Elm Grove route. Harshs Sugar Camp on Wheeling creek
between Viola asn Majorsville was famous place for picnics and
political rallies. Several years ago the fine grove of sugar trees
or maples was cut down and replaced by farming land. Harsh Bridge
is now the name of the locality.
Washington Forks
Is where the Pine Hill road leaves the Sherrard road in Union
district a short distance from the Washington district line. It is
an oft used reference in land surveys and road work but nobody
knows how it got its name.
Water Power Mills
The Martin mill on Stulls Run, about two miles north of Pleasant
Valley, is in the best state of preservation of any of the many
water power mills that once ground grain or sawed lumber in the
county. This mill could be operated twenty-five or thirty years
ago. Other water power mills of most recent date were Potts mill
and Knox mill on Middle Grave creek; McCardle mill on Lower Bowman
run; probably a mill at where Millsboro formerly was a hamlet on
Lynn Camp run, now not even having a travelable road to it; a mill
on Wheeling creek between Viola and Harsh bridge; a mill on Big
Grave farm, a building still standing; at least one mill on Big
Grave creek not far from Moundsville and the Porter mill between
the station and the Rock at Rosbys Rock. Just south of the county
line on Rocky run at Rockport the Carney mill was operated until
about or possibly since the World war.
Wells Pit
Which produces immense quantities of sand and gravel, is about a
mile and a half south of Kent. Last year, when the federal
government was moving cattle from the drought areas of the west,
many thousands were unloaded at the Pit and kept in a extensive
system of pens. Every mark of that enterprise has been removed.
Wells Pit is located on Proctor R. D. 3. A deep lake occupies the
place where gravel was taken to ballast the Shortline railroad.
Wolf Run
For many had a post office. It is about middleway between the mouth
and source of that stream.
Wood Hill
Is an M. E. church on the eastern end of Fairview ridge, where Wood
Hill ridge begins and extends westward to the forks of Little Grave
creek. A school was near the church until the consolidated school
was built at Limestone. There never was a village there.
Woodland
Is the post office name while no name appears on the railroad
station name for the village on the southern side at the mouth of
Fish creek. It is a very old place, but not as old as an alleged
historic write-up (never published in this newspaper) said,- -that
a school was taught there in 1772. At that time there was not even
a habitation within many miles of that place. The mouth of Fish
creek has always been a good "trading point'. At present there are
four filling stations there and some stores. Several people have
become fairly wealthy in business during the past century. The
point at the junction of creek and river has been converted into a
park. Hornbrooks Landing and Mouth of Fish Creek were early
names.
Woodruff
Is the first stop on the B & O east of Cameron.