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Elevated view of the lumber company town of Jenningston.

1. Jenningston, Tucker County, W. Va.

2. Main Street, Jenningston, W. Va.

Clearing trees to build the new town of Davis.

3. Birth of City, Davis, W. Va.

4. Front Street; Parsons, W. Va.

5. View of Several Buildings and Houses, Auvil, W. Va.

6. City Building and Co. Bridge; Parsons, W. Va.

Completed in 1898 by Jesse Howard Simmons. The building was used as a hotel until 1917 when it was converted into an apartment complex known as Liberty Flat. It would then be later converted back into a hotel bearing the name Worden's Hotel.

7. Wordens Hotel and Restaurant; Davis, W. Va.

8. High Water at Black Fork, Parsons, W. Va.

9. New Opera House, Parsons, W. Va.

10. Tucker County Court House, Parsons, W. Va.

11. Arlington Hotel, Parsons, W. Va.

A mob returns to Parsons, W. Va. from the former seat of Tucker County, St. George.  The mob had taken records from the old courthouse by force.The view is from the corner of Main Street and Second Street, looking northeast down Second Street toward the Shavers Fork River and a treeline.  In the top right corner in the distance is a mountain called Turkey Knob.Ward Parsons, the leader of the mob, is pictured in the lower right on a black horse.

12. Mob Returning to Parsons, W. Va. with County Records