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People standing by the remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co.

1. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill

Remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company.

2. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill

Remains of the Cherry & Lumber Company.

3. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill

Group portrait of men sitting on a wooden bench.<br />

4. Logging Camp Crew of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

Bergoo, West Virginia; Lumber company building beside train tracks.<br /><br />

5. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Prior to Conversion to Electricity

Logs and lumber piles seen from a distance.

6. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Mill Yard, Bergoo, W. Va.

Portrait of crew with surveying equipment.

7. Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest

A Pardee and Curtin Company operation.

8. Cutting Bridge Stringers for a Logging Railroad

Smoke emanating from burning mill at night.

9. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill

Log Train passing along hillside.

10. Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Log Train

Pardee and Curtain Lumber operation. This tree, possibly a redwood, was used to build the Titanic. More info from Comstock's "Of Times Past", 1949.  Cut from Cuppernick ? Bend near Curtin, Nicholas County.

11. Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.

Possibly a redwood tree used in building the "Titanic". Harvested by the Pardee and Curtin Lumber Co.The man on the left is John Harvey Reid.

12. Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.

13. Team of William 'Bill' McCourt on Logging Road

Group of men pose at their camp site. None are identified.

14. Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest

Miners on cars in front of the entrance to the Bergoo No. 3 Mine. Rear Left to Right:  Ernest 'Windy' Rose, Argil Rose (on car), Oliver Williams, French Dunlop, Ernie Riffle (later killed in a mine accident at the same mines), Mike Hamilton, Hartsel Friend, Lloyd Crites, Fred Bennett?, Russell Heaveners; Motor Men: Bucky Rexroad (left) and Okey Grien (right), Gordon Ward (2nd motor left) and Gillepsie (2nd motor right), Hick Hardway (standing on car), Ray Riffle (leaning on car).

15. Main Portal of Pardee and Curtin No. 3 Mine, Bergoo, W. Va.

A portrait of W.C. Cooper, possibly the President of Board of Education Fork Lick District, Webster County, West Virginia.

16. Cooper, W. C. of Webster County, W. Va.

Men cutting logs for a contest in Webster County.

17. Chopping and Sawing Contest, Webster County, W. Va.

18. Wood Sawing Contestants in Webster County, W. Va.

19. Log Sawing Competition, Webster County, W. Va.

20. Chopping and Sawing Team at the Rhododendron Festival in Webster County, W. Va.

21. Winning Team in the Chopping-Sawing Contest held in Webster County, W. Va.

22. Competitors in the Chopping-Sawing Contest in Webster County, W. Va.

23. Competitors in the Chopping-Sawing Contest in Webster County, W. Va.

Aerial view of Webster Springs in Webster County.

24. Webster Springs, Webster County, W. Va.

Aerial view of Webster Springs in Webster County.

25. Webster Springs, Webster County, W. Va.

Aerial view of Webster Springs in Webster County from Miller Mountain.

26. Webster Springs, Webster County, W. Va.

Pardee and Curtin Company.

27. Panoramic View of Bergoo, Webster County, W. Va.

Aerial view of Bergoo in Webster County.

28. Bergoo, Webster County, W. Va.

29. Bergoo, Webster County, W. Va.

30. Flood Damage in Bergoo, Webster County, W. Va.

Photographs of some tourist attractions in Webster County shown in the West Virginia Farm News.

31. Tourist Attractions, Webster County, W. Va.

32. Webster Springs High School, Webster County, W. Va.

Children and others watch the laying of cornerstone of old Webster Springs High School.

33. Laying of Cornerstone at Webster Springs High School, Webster County, W. Va.

34. Webster Springs High School Football Team, Webster County, W. Va.

Photograph of the Mountaineer Editorial Staff working.

35. Mountaineer Yearbook Editorial Staff, Webster Springs High School, Webster County, W. Va.

36. Webster Springs High School Participants in the Central West Virginia Literary Contest, Webster County, W. Va.

37. Cool Springs Grade School, Webster County, W. Va.

38. Class Photo Webster Springs High School, Webster County, W. Va.

Bus driver and two men stand next to the bus filled with students in front of Webster County High School.

39. First County School Bus, Webster County, W. Va.

Five men and a young girl in front of the bus.

40. Remains of Number One Bus on Lonnie Cool's Farm in Webster County, W. Va.

41. Hamrick, Eli 'Rimfire' of Webster County, W. Va.

42. Athlete Avis Hamrick of Webster County, W. Va.

43. Hamrick, Adam J., Webster County, W. Va.

'Son of Sampson Dodrill.'

44. Dodrill, Guy, Webster County, W. Va.

45. Chapman, Wade Riding a Horse in Webster County, W. Va.

46. Wolfram, Judd on the Adam J. Hamrick Farm in Webster County, W. Va.

'First Webster County Extension Agent.'

47. Wolfram, Judd, Webster County, W. Va.

48. Reaser, Edward F., Webster County, W. Va.

'West Virginia Teacher of the Year in 1963-1964.'

49. Nichols, Mabel, Webster County, W. Va.

50. Morton, Ernest V., Teacher at Webster Springs High School, Webster County, W. Va.

51. Miller, Mack, Webster County, W. Va.

52. McLaughlin, Dr. John, Webster County, W. Va.

W. S. H. S. photo of Mayme McCutcheon.  'When we catch Mayme in a secret pose, We know she's about to powder her nose.  Then she sticks a hairpin in her hair And thinks she looks so beautiful and fair.'

53. McCutcheon, Mayme, Webster County, W. Va.

54. McCutcheon, William H., President of the Board of Ed., Webster County, W. Va.

55. Kessler, Dr. Dan P., Principal of Cowen High School, Webster County, W. Va.

56. Hamrick, Martin, Webster County, W. Va.

'Academic - Coming to class he is always late, In a contest he sure can 'orate',  He never loafs downtown, On the athletic field he is always found.'

57. Hamilton, Harry

'Everett Hamrick, son of Nathan Hamrick, was killed in a fall from a bridge.'

58. Hamrick, Everett, Webster County, W. Va.

'He served many  years on the board of education of Fork Lick District as commissioner and secretary.'

59. Hicks, Thomas Minter, Principal at Webster Springs and Parcoal, Webster County, W. Va.

'Junior High teacher.  Member of first graduating class.  Member of W. Va. legislature.'

60. Cogar, Okey M, Webster County, W. Va.

61. Cogar, Amos, Sec. of Fork Lick Dist. Board of Education, Webster County, W. Va.

'W. S. H. S.  Listed in Who's Who in America.

62. Dodrill, Forest, Webster County, W. Va.

'Principal of WSHS in 1914-1915.'

63. Gregory, A. F., Webster County, W. Va.

'Principal at W. S. H. S. ca. 1915-1923-1926.  He was also Superintendent of Ohio Northern University, Bethany College.'

64. Jaminson, John F., Webster County, W. Va.

65. Knabenshoe, E. H., Webster Springs High School Superintendant, Webster County, W. Va.

66. Kessler, Dr. Dan P., Principal of Cowen High School, Webster County, W. Va.

Cold Knob School was located on Laurel Run of the Gauley River.

67. Class Photo Cold Knob School, Webster County, W. Va.

Cornerstone laid Oct 8th, 1913. Home of Fork Lick Graded School and Webster Springs High School.

68. Webster Springs High School, Webster County, W. Va.

69. Class Photo Ruby Hamrick Grade School at Bergoo, Webster County, W. Va.

Sibyl Keener is the Teacher.

70. Class Photo Bergoo, Webster County, W. Va.

71. Webster Springs High School Class of 1913, Webster County, W. Va.

72. Minutes of Webster County Board of Education, W. Va.

73. Minutes of Fork Lick Dist. Board of Education, Webster County, W. Va.

74. Minutes of Fork Lick Dist. Board of Education, Webster County, W. Va.

75. Webster Springs High School Orators, W. Va.

76. Report Card for Maynard Graydon McMillion, Wheeler, Webster County, W. Va.

77. Hamrick Farm on Leather Creek, Webster County, W. Va.

78. Fishing at Elbon Mill, Webster County, W. Va.

People sitting outside of the Maude Rose House in Bolair, W. Va. Picture taken sometime before 1914.

79. Family Members in front of Maude Rose House, Bolair, Webster County, W. Va.

People standing out in front of Standard House, an early hotel in Webster Springs.

80. Residents of Standard House, Webster Springs, W. Va.

81. Webster Springs Hotel, Webster Springs, W. Va.

"At 3:30 p.m. 'students rush out to buses waiting to be loaded.'" Webster County Students Boarding Buses, Webster County, W. Va.

82. Webster County Students Boarding Buses, Webster County, W. Va.

A man is participating in a chopping contest in Webster County, West Virginia, while others look on.

83. Participant in a Chopping Contest, Webster County, W. Va.

84. Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster County, W. Va.

A woman is stirring applebutter in Webster County, West Virginia.

85. Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster County, W. Va.

86. Webster Springs Hotel Fire, Webster Springs, W. Va.

87. Oakland Hotel, Webster Springs, W. Va.

88. Webster Springs Hotel, Webster Springs, W. Va.

89. Webster Springs Hotel, Webster Springs, W. Va.

90. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Mill, Bergoo, W. Va.

Two women are stirring applebutter while a man is working with the fire in Webster County, West Virginia.

91. Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster County, W. Va.

Four people are making applebutter, and you can see them filling jars after the applebutter is ready.

92. Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster County, W. Va.

Two women are making applebutter and filling the jars after the process is completed.

93. Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster County, W. Va.

Women and men are making apple butter and filling jars after the process is completed.

94. Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster County, W. Va.

95. Making Apple Butter the Old Fashioned Way, Webster County, W. Va.

96. Peeling Apples to Make Applebutter the Old Fashion Way, Webster County, W. Va.