MCDOWELL COUNTY ARTICLES AND STORIES


 

Here are some articles and stories relating to McDowell County subjects contributed by researchers like you. They are wide-ranging in scope, and give glimpses into the lives and times of our McDowell County people and places.

 

Welch Municipal Parking Building

Photos of Site Construction for New Schools in Bradshaw

Elkhorn Creek Stream Cleanup, Saturday, April 14, 2007

Rosie the Riveter - by Christine Hayes

Trinnie Ward - by Christine Hayes

McDowell County life inspires the bluegrass of ‘Cathead' - Charleston Daily Mail article

Sterling Drive-in - Charleston Daily Mail article

Junior Stanley - a McDowell County Veteran by Christine Hayes

Evelyn Stanley - a tribute by Christine Stanley Hayes

Black Lung - a film by Shane Roberts

Good Times - Submitted by Buddy French

Good Times Re-visited - Submitted by Buddy French

The Poker Game - By Harless Edgar Warf

Little Egypt Lost - By Dolores Davis

The Mules of August - By Harless Edgar Warf

My Childhood Memories of the 1929 Depression - By Harless Edgar Warf

The Stranger at the Foot of the Mountain - By: Phylenia Snow French

Colonization of the Coal Camps - Submitted by Jeri Whitely

Gary Hollow Memories - Submitted by Buddy French

My First Night in the Mines - Submitted by Buddy French

Letters from Vietnam: Remembering a Roderfield Soldier - Submitted by Cathy Patton

McDowell County - Lumber Companies & Railroads - (1899 - 1904) - Submitted by June White

McDowell County - Joseph Lawton Beury (1842 - 1903) - Submitted by June White

McDowell County Shooting - Elmer Dunn - 1903 - Submitted by June White

Keystone, WV, McDowell County - 1903 - Submitted by Cheryl Wiscount

McDowell County Shooting - 1900 - Submitted by June White

McDowell County Natural Gas Strike - 1902 - Submitted by June White

McDowell County - William Lang Shot to Death in Alabama - 1904 - Submitted by June White

McDowell County - Colonel John D. Hewitt (1847 - 1903) - Submitted by June White

McDowell County - Directory of Coal Companies - 1896 - Submitted by June White

McDowell County from 100 Years Ago - Submitted by June White

Names Of Early Coal Operations - 1950 - Submitted by Sebert Toney, Jr.

Stories Of Baldwin-Felts Agency - 1950 - Submitted by Sebert Toney, Jr.

Colonel Tierney Dies at Home - September, 1922 - Submitted by June White

A Distressing Accident - February, 1897 - Submitted by June White

McDowell County Mining Fatalities in August, 1922 - Submitted by June White

The Visit - By Howard Hull

Mountain Woman - By Howard Hull

The Answer Machine

Mack Jenks, Union Bard

World War I and the Miners of Southern West Virginia

Coal Miners and their Communities in Southern Appalachia, 1925 - 1945 (part 1)

Coal Miners and their Communities in Southern Appalachia, 1925 - 1945 (part 2)

Organization of the National Guard in Southern West Virginia

Memories of a Coal Camp Childhood

Thunder in the Mountains - The Havaco Story

Education in the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields

Woman's Work in the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields

Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains

Segregation and Integration in McDowell County

Historic Coalwood - basic history of Coalwood, WV

History of McDowell Education - an overview of the educational system in McDowell Co

History of Telephone Service in McDowell County

Return To Glen Alum - a return to the scene of the 1914 robbery/murders

Story of The Shortridge Family - On Dry Fork, Reads Like Fiction But It's Not

A Time To Weep - The Bartley Mine Disaster

 

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