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View of the old Bailey House, located on the corner of Main and Second Streets.  'The sign 'Bailey and Tunstil' on the store was Major Bailey and his son-in-law. In the group was David Bare, father; J. H. Bare, druggist; Andrew Edmiston, known as Sr., a long prominent lawyer; and John S. Camden, later of Parkersburg. Here Thomas Jackson, J. A. J. Lightburn, Johnson N. Camden, and G. J. Butcher took examination for West Point. Butcher won, stayed a week, then came home. Jackson went as a second choice.'
The Kanawha River is in the foreground and the capitol in seen center, back ground.
Small, dilapidated, wooden house beside what appears to be a shoe factory or store.
Large group of people gathered around a wooden structure, Lewisburg, W. Va.
'Now gone.  Roy Bird Cook in front.'
'This house was the first County Clerk's office in Greebrier County. It was built about 1780, by Col. John Stuart, who was the first clerk of the county court. The county then extended from 'now Augusta Co., Va. to the Ohio River' and took in about three fourths of the state of W. Va. near Lewisburg, W. Va.'
A view of the barely visible 'old dam, Arnold Livery, and Weston's first Electric Light Plant, J. S. Mitchell, Supt.'