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LEADING CREEK OIL BOOM: 1901 - Calhoun County is now the center of attraction to oil and gas men. Grantsville is crowded full of people with interest and the fever is high. Among those fields are Leading and Yellow Creek. An oil well on the Metz farm came in and is a good well, paying right handsome sums.By Bob Weaver 2012. The Fairfax Farm lies mostly in Wirt County near the edge of Calhoun, originally over 600 acres that rests in a giant bend of the Little Kanawha River, one of the largest pieces of rich flatland in the region. Notable is the Fairfax history going back to Thomas Lord Fairfax, who once owned five million acres of Virginia and ...THE HUR HERALD: "A Poor Persons Paper". (09/06/2023) In the Early days of the Herald's introduction to the Internet. (1999) few Calhouners had computers, so copies of stories got. pasted in a Grantsville store front window starting in 1996, even on the hottest. day of summer, folks stood around to read and discuss the news, while hard copies ...HUR HERALD'S BEAR FORK TALES - The Dark And Scary Woods, Hidden Gold (05/16/2022) THE DARK AND SCARY WOODS, TALES AND SECRETS. By Bob Weaver 2000. There are several thousand acres in the back woods of Calhoun, Gilmer and Braxton County, a section of forest mysteriously recalled with tales told, now essentially uninhabited.He was about 94 (Nov. 2022). He held forth on the Right Fork of Crummies Creek, having been discovered ill at his cabin last Spring. Parsons of Crummies Creek was on the fringe of the Bear Fork Wilderness, with up to 25 Families once living there, with only a handful of survivors in 2022. His body has been returned to the Calhoun sod.

By Bob Weaver 8-2022. Seventy-seven year old Bob Mollohan is a porch-sitter along the headwaters of Walker Creek, which winds its way from Chloe WV to a spot where Calhoun, Clay and Braxton counties join. Walker Creek is a rugged backwoods place, filled with the history of its settlers. Mollohan lives on his birthplace, the faded Village of ...Brian and Jan Hastewell have dutifully reported really cold temperatures from their narrow Frozen hollow. Hastewell gave the official winter temperature on Jan. 21, 2019 at 4 degrees above zero. The wind chill was likely 15 below at times. Hastewell, an Australian native married Frozen resident Jan Schartiger, have lived in the remote hollow ...Ripley track and field teams compete in Tudor's Relays.

June 14, 2021 - The Rainbow Hotel, Grantsville's long time eye sore, health and safety hazards will finally be demolished and removed. Citizen activists, several mayors and town councils have made efforts for nearly 20 years to remove the old structure at the corner of Mill and Court Street. Asbestos has been blowing out the windows for years ...

Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West VirginiaSpencer WV Mayor Terry Williams says, "The Spencer Police Department has been fortunate to have many dedicated officers during my tenure as Mayor. Being a police officer is certainly not an easy position at times, and requires a special type of public servant. ... Corporal Starcher tells the Hur Herald that Spencer officers work 4, 10 hour ... Just such a route, eight rugged miles long, connects the tiny towns of Chloe and Elmira in the hills of central West Virginia. There 60-year-old J.B. Vaughan, astride his pinto horse, Pat, delivers mail six days a week to about 200 hill folk. Contractors Operate "Star" Routes. Burt, as he likes to be called, is not a regular postal employee. The 1931 Lynching Of Tom Jackson & George Banks. According to WV records and media accounts. On the night of December 10, 1931, about 50 armed and masked men drove to Lewisburg to avenge 2 murders. To protect their identity, they traveled in cars from which the license plates had been removed.

JOE CAIN CELEBRATING 91 YEARS. (11/16/2020) DR. JOE CAIN TURNING 91. 2019 BIRTHDAY STORY - Dr. Joe Cain, a well-recognized name in the community has provided veterinary help to farmers and pet lovers for over 60 years, is turning ninety. He was born in the Big Bend, WV, son to Eva and Everett Cain. He recalls asking his father about a man ...

JESSE JAMES ROBBED WEST VIRGINIA BANK - Legends Link Outlaw To Region, "All Bad People Came To Bear Fork" (10/16/2023) By Bob Weaver. Jesse James continues to rise from folklore dust to be the subject of Hollywood movies. Central West Virginia stories abound about over-night stays and backwoods encounters with outlaw James and his brother Frank.

The Appalachian Regional Commission did not respond to a Hur Herald request related to Calhoun County and the Calhoun County Park not receiving a 2017 $240,000 grant for the Dark Skies Project. The Hur Herald has now issued a Freedom of Information request with the ARC, asking them to provide documentation regarding what happened with the funding.2022: DAVIS GRUBB'S WV FILM "NIGHT OF THE HUNTER" REMAINS TOP 100 MOTION PICTURES OF ALL TIMES. Novelist Davis Grubb. By Bob Weaver 2017. WV novelist Davis Grubb said his 1969 novel that was made into the film "Fools' Parade" staring Jimmy Stewart, was partly based on the life of murderer William Holly Griffith, a resident of Creston, Wirt County.2012: WHITE PINE 'OLD SCHOOL' REUNION RECALLED SIMPLER TIMES. (03/22/2024) The old White Pine school drew students from up and down. the valley and hills for a better part of the 20th Century, until it was closed about 1970 and students went to Grantsville. 2012. The second annual White Pine School reunion brought a crowd of former teachers ...- Hur Herald Photos. By Bob Weaver 2008. The town of Chicken, Alaska, not unlike Hur, has a population of about 15. It is an old gold mining town from the late 1800's in the middle of nowhere. ... In West Virginia, the state keeps the resource tax money (which they trickle down) and raises every citizen's taxes, including the most impoverished ...READ HUR HERALD STORIES. BLINDING FLASH, DEAFENING CONCUSSION, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION - Cabot Station Explodes 60 Years Ago (1945) LUM SHAFFER NOW IN ETERNITY - Saturated With Paraffin, "Burned To A Crisp" In Cabot Station Fire (1902)Hur Herald - Genealogy. Watchers. Janiejac. search google books. search worldcat. Coverage. Publication information. Citation. Repositories. This is an online …

SHERRY MCCORMICK'S BLOOMING STATE CAPITOL. (03/31/2024) WV STATE CAPITOL SPRINGS TO LIFE. Photographs By Sherry McCormick. 2020: GRANTSVILLE SKY-VIEW FROM THE AIR - Part Three. (08/28/2023) The Hur Herald has been recording the life and times of Calhoun for 25 years, including thousands of photographs across the 280 square miles. Thanks to Dan Kemper, a historian with roots in the county, and his high-tech drone, he has already photographed the Bethlehem Church and ... It has been over 60 years since the government's War on Poverty was launched in West Virginia. It is a common assumption that people make choices that keeps them poverty stricken, lacking a work gene, having motivation or education to join the work force, becoming takers at the government trough. There are slackers, takers and abusers of the ...We passed a pretty teenage girl somewhere in remote West Virginia-she was wearing a breezy old-fashioned plaid dress and walking downvalley along the railroad tracks with her head down in maddening self-containment. We talked about her for weeks (EXPLANATION-These boys have been away from home, too long), and knew full well that she was the ...Hur Herald - Local News Calhoun County West VirginiaThe village has been the subject of a few dozen articles and numerous photographs on the Hur Herald for many years (use search Richardson), a once busy rural village with little remains of its' glory days, except the cemetery on the hill and a beautiful grassy field along the river. ... He was elected to the WV House of Delegates in 1885 and ...

There are 517 matches for the year 2018:. Date Published: Article: 12-31-2018: Carolyn J. Friend, 84, of Georgia, formerly of ParkersburgWest Virginia's jails, among the highest incarceration rates in the USA, and West Virginia cemeteries are being filled with those suffering from addiction. WV jails are full of men and women suffering from addiction. Addiction is a disease that touches most every family, more often than not stereotyped as willful misconduct, making wrong ...

Kanawha County deputies have identified the woman killed as Ashley Elizabeth Garrett, 28, in a crash on Interstate 79 near Elkview Saturday morning. Garrett was killed when her vehicle crossed the median, rolled into oncoming traffic and was struck by a pickup truck, according to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office. The crash happened just ...2023: GRANTSVILLE HAS A NEW GREEN FIELD - Removal Rainbow Hotel. (02/26/2024) 2023: Grantsville has another soon to be green field, with.Click here to see - In Memoriam of Mr. Jim Bell, on Calhoun County Historical Society's Facebook page. James Arthur Bell, 93, of Grantsville, WV, went to the Lord on November 7, 2021, at WV Caring Hospice, Elkins, WV. He was born December 17, 1927, a son of the late Holly and Arldia Stump Bell. Jim married Juanita Nichols in 1949.1974 & 2017 David Kutz. Kutz came to Calhoun in the 1970s to photograph their endeavors, and while here took photographs in the Grantsville area, which he has released for publication on the Hur Herald. We would like to hear from our readers regarding the photographs and the people in them, none were captioned by Kutz at the time.Shown here is a young Joe Overbaugh of Hur, whose family roots are in Nicholas County, at Hart's grave site, he becoming and outstanding educator and entrepreneur . 121 years ago in 1902, one of Calhoun's most historical figures Nancy Hart, went on to her maker to be buried in a rural Nicholas County cemetery.WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Charleston Meth Murder, Killer Road Rage. (04/24/2021) METH MURDER - Police say a man killed in a Thursday evening shooting on Charleston's West Side was sparked by an argument over methamphetamine. Beau Alexander Hodge, 30, of Clendenin is charged with first-degree murder for the death of Charles "CJ" Thaxton, 29, of ...Calhoun's three fire departments had a work-out during 2007, with what was likely a record number of houses fires. CALHOUN FIRES: Hur Herald Photos 2007. Broomstick house Jan. 2007. Wolf Run fire near Orma Jan. 2007. Big Springs fire Feb. 2007. Annamoriah fire Feb. 2007. One of two houses on Mud Fork April 2007. Cabbage Knob Fire, Nobe April 2007.12-28-2023. MISS NETTIE'S CONTRAPTION SCARED HER - "I Had To Go Sit Down". 12-28-2023. A RETURN TO HISTORIC BELLS FORD ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA. 12-27-2023. LOOKING BACK 2001 - A Few Highlights From The Hur Herald. 12-27-2023. HUR HERALD NEWS 2002 - A Few Interesting Highlights From The Year That Was. 12-27-2023.

It is adjacent to the Bear Fork Wilderness, the Nicholas' being early comers to the Calhoun woods by 1820, with at least two cemeteries on the creek holding the oldtimers. Bear Run, from the 1800s on, was habitated mostly by the same families, Nicholas, Cottrell, King and Parsons. The early comers, Leven Nicholas (1756) and Zephhiah Nicholas ...

The best account of Booger Hole is recorded in a small book written by Clay County resident Mary Lucinda Curry - "Booger Hole, Mysteries, Ghost Tales And Strange Occurrences." Curry first published her "Booger Hole" book. in 1990 and it is still available after all these years: Cindy. Curry, 3320 Ossia Road, Duck WV 25063, Send $5 plus $2 ...

By Bob Weaver. Republished from August 2003. Long before wanderlust was given names, Calhouner Charley Booher was traveling to Key West in a 1928 Model A Ford, exploring the back roads of America on motor bikes or flying over the rugged mountains in single-engine airplanes. Charley, who turned 90 this week, has long been a free spirit to see ...Recent News Updates: 05-02-2024. NEW LIFE GRACES THE WOODS. 05-02-2024. BOUNTIFUL: STINK BUGS, SPIDERS , FLIES AND GNATS. 05-02-2024. SICKLES … GERALDINE HUPP 71ST CALHOUN WV FOLK FESTIVAL BELLE - Festival This Week, Calhoun's Beautiful Belles Over The Years. (06/18/2021) Geraldine Hupp of Grantsville is the 71st WV Folk Festival Belle which will be held in Glenville June 17-20, 2021, she appearing in the Wood Festival Parade. The West Virginia State Folk Festival in Glenville was ... HUR HERALD'S BEAR FORK TALES - Native Americans Hunted Bear Fork Wilderness, Last Native American Killed In 1804. (05/16/2022) By Bob Weaver. Bradford W. Davis, in a college thesis, wrote about Native Americans in Gilmer County, including the Bear Fork wilderness area. The area was a favorite hunting ground, Davis saying six or seven mounds ...California, West Virginia is back on the map, a project completed in 2007. The long faded village is located on the 180-mile Parkersburg-Staunton Turnpike (Route 47) 27 miles from Parkersburg in Wirt County, a short distance from Freeport. David McKain's Oil, Gas and Civil War Heritage District has just developed the California site, one of ...US VETERANS HAVE HIGH HOMELESS RISK - Faces Of The West Virginia Homeless, Breaking The Stereotype (11/08/2023) In 2015 the Hur Herald spent several days with homeless veterans of WV photographing and writing their stories. HOMELESS FACES AND STORIES BREAK STEREOTYPE. WV Homeless veterans and their stories helped by SSVF to find housingCALHOUN'S EARLY GRIST MILLS - A Grist Mill List. (03/09/2024) Nearly every small community had a grist mill, essential to grinding grain into flour, meal, and animal feed. Many of the Calhoun grists were associated with country stores, although some operated from family barns and sheds. Witt Flour Mill at Minnora Early 1900's.Perry Conley and Nancy Hart, the "Lady Guerrilla," helped organize an irregular group of renegades in Calhoun County. While some Calhoun citizens left the Moccasin Rangers disgusted with its thieving ways, General Heth continued to describe the group as band of robbers and plunderers. During the war Francis Butler was killed on Big Otter by his ...WV KNIFE AND GUN CLUB. (11/07/2006) MORE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND DEATH - State Police say an autopsy performed Saturday shows 46-year-old Tina M. Fluharty died of multiple gunshot wounds. Fluharty was shot along with her father, 70-year-old William Bernadini, and Trooper B. R. Henderson last Friday. The Wellsburg shootings were …Just such a route, eight rugged miles long, connects the tiny towns of Chloe and Elmira in the hills of central West Virginia. There 60-year-old J.B. Vaughan, astride his pinto horse, Pat, delivers mail six days a week to about 200 hill folk. Contractors Operate "Star" Routes. Burt, as he likes to be called, is not a regular postal employee.SCHRADER FINED $375 FOR IMPERSONATING A LAW OFFICER IN CALHOUN FOR TWO MONTHS. (10/22/2021) Calhoun magistrate Lora Davis, in a court hearing Thursday, said that Sam Sloan Schrader, 29, of Erbacon, pled guilty to a charge related to the impersonation of a police officer in Calhoun County. He was fined $375.00.

Henry and W. H. Fling were buried in Hunt Cemetery in 1905 near Big Root, likely connected to the original family. SIX BURNED TO DEATH IN 1904 FIRE AT LOWTHER, WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT BY BURNING OF THE HOUSE. Calhoun County, W. Va., (Associated Press) H. S. Fling, his wife and four children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their ...It has been over 60 years since the government's War on Poverty was launched in West Virginia. It is a common assumption that people make choices that keeps them poverty stricken, lacking a work gene, having motivation or education to join the work force, becoming takers at the government trough. There are slackers, takers and abusers of the ...In a study of the safest U.S. states during COVID-19, updated on Wednesday, May 26, West Virginia ranked dead last. A few weeks ago, in national statistics, Calhoun WV had the 3rd highest number of outbreak cases in the nation, while the Hur Herald could not confirm the cause of the outbreak or get a statement verifying it.Instagram:https://instagram. gotrax hoverboard won't turn onbrazoria county clerk's office angleton txflower mound inmate searchpa pheasant stocking 2023 dates PINE CREEK-HUR NEWS - Hot News Delayed (1930-40) 03-09-2024: MOMENTS IN TIME: Mother Burns Child to Death in 1901: 03-09-2024: CALHOUN'S EARLY GRIST MILLS - A Grist Mill List : 03-08-2024: BOY GOT HIS STRIDE IN SMALL TOWN SPENCER, WEST VIRGINIA - Panoz Launched Multi-Million Dollar Career, One Of America's Outstanding Entrepreneurs : 03-08-2024 new york food stamp eligibility calculatorhow to refresh quick add on snapchat Henry and W. H. Fling were buried in Hunt Cemetery in 1905 near Big Root, likely connected to the original family. SIX BURNED TO DEATH IN 1904 FIRE AT LOWTHER, WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OUT BY BURNING OF THE HOUSE. Calhoun County, W. Va., (Associated Press) H. S. Fling, his wife and four children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their ...THIS OLE HOUSE - "Watch That TV 'Til We Starve To Death" (07/21/2023) This ole two-story log house, built by early settler, in the backwoods would have stories, now collapsed to the ground houses for rent in duquesne pa on craigslist 2023 - West Virginia has a long list of multi-millionaire coal politicians, Coal's current US Senator Manchin's net worth is $22 million, and Gov. Jim Justice was a billionaire when he was elected. ... Editors Note: Bob Weaver, editor Hur Herald, joined about 1,000 citizens in a 2011 march re-enacting the miner's march to Blair Mountain ...Emma Metz 1923-2009, a one-of-a-kind. spirit that graced the Calhoun backwoods. A service was held on Memorial Day 2010 for Emma Parsons Metz near her property on the right fork of Crummies Creek. Metz died in December 2009 at age 87 in the middle of a winter storm, which prevented having a funeral service. Relatives and neighbors …