Elevated View of Jackson's Mill and Four-H Camp, Lewis County, W. Va.
Date:
1926
Description:
The Dining Hall with columns, is in the background, left. The large building to the right of the bridge, situated on the West Fork River bank is the original mill run by the Jackson family during the Antebellum period. Thomas Jackson (later known as Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson) worked at this mill and farm as a child while living here with his uncles.
Standing L to R: Coach John Edwards, Lenvil Newsome, Alfred Jones, Ernest Baxter, Stanely Marshall, Lesley Newsome, Unidentified, Unidentified and Alfred Cole. Sitting L to R: William Holland, John Parker, and James Denmark. On the ground: Unidentified and Oliver Mosby. Information on p. 115 in "Our Monongalia" by Connie Park Rice. Information with the photograph includes "Courtesy of Charlene Marshall."
' Far L- John (Jack) Nanz, Far R- Betty Nanz, Woman holding child: Mary H. Coleman Donahue, child Mary Dorothy Blume, child 3rd from R-Ruth Nanz,and woman with face scratched out Agnes Coleman Nanz.'
Custom Built Studebakers Awarded as Prizes by the Grafton Sentinel Publishing Co., Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1926
Description:
Custom built Studebaker, Oakland Landau Sedan, and a Chandler Standard Sedan, three automobiles given as prizes by the Grafton Sentinel Publishing Company during a circulation drive.
Women Working in Garden at Barrack Village Near Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
1926
Description:
During Unionization of Coal Company workers, miners' families were evicted from Company owned houses. The Union supplied building material and land and the miners plus others constructed temporary barracks until the labor trouble was settled. Beside the barracks, there was room for small garden plots and here they are shown working in them. See New York Times Sunday Sept. 5th Picture Section.