Drawn, colored depiction of the city set beside New River.Postcard postmarked January 22, 1933 was published by Dolin Bros. of Hinton, W. Va. See original for correspondence.
Portrait of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Date:
undated
Description:
Huntington was the president of the C. & O. Railway when the line moved, in 1972, into what would later become Hinton and Summers County, W. Va.Huntington purchased, for the railroad, all the land where the City of Hinton now stands at public auction. He later purchased from the railroad all the land that would not be used by the railroad.
Front row, from left to right, is unknown, John Plumley, D. J. Via, E. B. Moten, W. M. Harvey, unknown, and Mr. Stewart.Second row, from left to right is Ed Adkins, B. P. Roye, unknown, unknown, Whitey Stoddard, and Joe Allen.