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61. St. Ann's Methodist Church in Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
033905
Title:
St. Ann's Methodist Church in Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1975-1985

62. Mother's Day Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
033911
Title:
Mother's Day Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1975-1985

63. Grafton High School, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
033930
Title:
Grafton High School, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1975-1985

64. Post Office in Volga, W. Va.

IDNO:
033960
Title:
Post Office in Volga, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1975-1985
' The above is the old log boom anchors on rock cribs to which the log booms were attached. All the mills at Grafton formed the Grafton Boom Company to impound or store the logs cut on the headwaters of the Tygarts Valley River. At times these logs reached some four or five miles back up the river from the boom. As the logs were needed by the mills they would be sorted and made into rafts and floated down to the mill of the owner as determined by their brand. The expense of this boom was prorated among the different mill operators. Previous to his coming to Grafton George Curtin, one of the partners of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company, was boomed superintendent at Lock Haven, Pa., and came from there to Grafton and acted as boom superintendent on the above boom and later joined up with Barton Pardee in forming the original Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company. During the flood of 1888 all of their holdings were washed away, and it is reported that George Curtin didn't have anything left but the shirt on his back. He went to Fairmont and he and Mr. Watson went on each other's paper for a loan of a thousand dollars with which to start a business again. In driving from Grafton to Grafton Dam these boom cribs may be seen. D. D. Brown, his wife, and grandson saw these on November 11, 1945.'

65. Old Log Boom On Tygarts Valley River, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
034842
Title:
Old Log Boom On Tygarts Valley River, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:
' The above is the old log boom anchors on rock cribs to which the log booms were attached. All the mills at Grafton formed the Grafton Boom Company to impound or store the logs cut on the headwaters of the Tygarts Valley River. At times these logs reached some four or five miles back up the river from the boom. As the logs were needed by the mills they would be sorted and made into rafts and floated down to the mill of the owner as determined by their brand. The expense of this boom was prorated among the different mill operators. Previous to his coming to Grafton George Curtin, one of the partners of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company, was boomed superintendent at Lock Haven, Pa., and came from there to Grafton and acted as boom superintendent on the above boom and later joined up with Barton Pardee in forming the original Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company. During the flood of 1888 all of their holdings were washed away, and it is reported that George Curtin didn't have anything left but the shirt on his back. He went to Fairmont and he and Mr. Watson went on each other's paper for a loan of a thousand dollars with which to start a business again. In driving from Grafton to Grafton Dam these boom cribs may be seen. D. D. Brown, his wife, and grandson saw these on November 11, 1945.'

66. Mine Foreman's Examination

IDNO:
035694
Title:
Mine Foreman's Examination
Date:
1913
John L. Graw

67. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Employees, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
036730
Title:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Employees, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
John L. Graw
John L. Graw

68. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Employees, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
036731
Title:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Employees, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
John L. Graw
A public school in Grafton, Taylor County, ca. 1890

69. Public School, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
037194
Title:
Public School, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
A public school in Grafton, Taylor County, ca. 1890

70. Hotel Blen Avon, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
037532
Title:
Hotel Blen Avon, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
1908

71. Old Log Boom on Tygarts Valley River, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
037533
Title:
Old Log Boom on Tygarts Valley River, Grafton, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1912
The Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church was named for Bishop Edward Gayer Andrews who conducted the formal dedication on March 16, 1873, according to Howard H. Wolfe's 1962 book "Mothers Day and the Mothers Day Church."

72. The Mothers Day Church, Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.

IDNO:
037621
Title:
The Mothers Day Church, Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, Grafton, W. Va.
Description:
The Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church was named for Bishop Edward Gayer Andrews who conducted the formal dedication on March 16, 1873, according to Howard H. Wolfe's 1962 book "Mothers Day and the Mothers Day Church."