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Probably a photograph of a sketch from an elevated view which includes part of Grafton and a bridge crossing the river.
Several players are wearing "noseguards" around their necks.
'First row, left to right: Walter Painter, Ray Bodkin, Lon Bodkin, Tommy Painter. Second row, left to right: Parion Cowger, Jessie Painter, Lynn Conrad, Lola Cowger, Myrtle Hevener, Oscar Painter. Third row, left to right: Ola Homan, Jessie Hammer (Teacher), Fanny Conrad.
Now the International Mothers Day Shrine.
Part of the Industrial School for Boys.
Records show William McDaniel died in 1848, not 1811 as stated in the caption. The sycamore tree in the image sprouted and grew through the grave. The grave was later moved, before the area was flooded by the Tygart Valley Dam Project in 1937.
Members of a Girls Basketball team in Grafton, West Virginia, pose for a group portrait.
Print number 1733.
Men stand around car while filling it up with gasoline at Lewis Service Station in Grafton, West Virginia.
Front view of the home of Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother's Day.  Webster is near Grafton in Taylor County.
Typescript on the back of photograph: 'Photo Number: WV-514-5; Location: Tygart Valley SCD - Taylor County; Pond on Dr. Haislip's farm near Grafton, W. Va.  Good pastures, hay and beef cattle combine with adequate water supply to give a picture of prosperity.'
The church was organized prior to West Virginia becoming a state in 1821 in what was then known as Williamsport, Virginia.
This church known as the "Mother Church of Mother's Day" and is where the Mother's Day holiday began when Mrs. Ann Reeves Jarvis began an effort to reunite family ties that had been broken during the Civil War. The day of reunification, first called "Mother's Friendship Day", was an organized event in which mother's of the community were brought together. Union and Confederate soldiers and their family members also participated, shaking each other's hands and rekindling friendship.Today, the holiday has grown to be internationally celebrated and recognized. This church currently holds an International Mother's Day shrine.
The church was established in 1858.
The church was first called Booths Creek and later changed to Middleville.  It was organized in 1825.
The chapel was built in what was then Williamsport, Virginia, twenty years before West Virginia became a state. The building served as a Methodist Protestant church until the Union of Methodist Churches in 1939. In 1947, the church and its grounds were sold to the Industrial School and was designated the school's institutional chapel.
The church was established in the 1850's when Irish and German settlers came to the town of Grafton to build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B. & O.).
The Dam facts: Supervision: Corps. U. S. Army Engineers, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Contractors: Frederick Snare Corp., New York, N. Y.; Width: 1900 FT.; Height: 265 Ft.; shoreline of Lake: 68.6 Miles.
View of railroad bridge in Taylor County.  Three men on cart on railroad tracks.
View of railroad bridge in Taylor County.
Members of the Taylor County Band standing on a hillside.  Third from right with trombone is Dr. Charley Brown
The house is located in Taylor Co. between Bridgeport and Flemington, W. Va.
A picture taken at dawn.