Welcome sign near Berlin on Hacker's Creek.
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Items on this page are from our own collections and will be found only on the HCPD website.
HCPD recently acquired Virginia Bly Hoover's 1984 transcription
of the Slab Camp Cemetery, located on Slab Camp
of French Creek in Upshur County. This is a *.pdf file. You will need Acrobat
to read it. Burials here pre-date the transfer of the property to the Trustees
of the Slab Camp Graveyard by more than fifty years. It was not until 9 June
1891 that the landowner R. M. Vincent transferred the cemetery lot to the
trustees who were: Henry J. Hefner, Schuyler H. Gould and James B. Gould. One
of the lines of the graveyard was the Slab Camp School house lot. This is the
graveyard as recorded by our webmaster in May 2007.
The official mouthpiece of HCPD is
the Hacker's Creek Journal. Follow this link to learn
more about the Journal and its online Table of Contents.
Some folks are interested in modern day
photos of places in and around Lewis County. Here are some from the
Skin Creek area.
The Mary Conrad Cabin
and the Conrad Family.
Archie Ellis was a Lewis County
photographer who recorded life in, around, and about Lewis County for 5
decades. In the late 1990s his widow gave the collection of his negatives and
some photographs to the Lewis County High School History Department. HCPD
worked with the department to insure that these images were preserved in a safe
and secure manner. Some of the negatives were glass, some were on nitrates, and
some were modern film. Most of the less stable negatives were stablized and
copied by the West Virginia State Archives with copies placed in their files.
The glass negatives were printed and digitzed through a grant from the Bill and
Joan Peters Foundation. Most of the collection is now stored in one form or
another at the HCPD Library.
One of the problems with the collection is the lack of identification on many of the images. This is particularly true of the people pictures, but even some of the places cannot be identified by researchers at the library. Hence, as time and space permit, images will be placed on this website with the hope that internet viewers will be able to give us details about each picture. Won't you help us? One more thing, please click on the small images and you will get bigger images with some identifiers.
- Lewis County sites
- More Lewis County sites
- Some unidentified persons or events in Lewis County. If you know the names or events, please e-mail us giving us the picture number and pertinent details. And, yes, some folks have identified a few of these for us. Visit the site and check them out.
- Another collection of unidentified images have been added to the website. These are part of our collection of glass negatives. Enjoy! and, please, let us know if you can identify any of them.
We do not guarantee that the photos in this section will remain on the internet idefinitely. Please do check back from time to time to see what we have here.
This is the first collection of many
photographs which will eventually appear on our website. These are sites along
the historic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, now
called US Route 33-US Route 119.
Four of our members were recently named
History Heroes by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Several of
our members attended the March 17, 2005, ceremony which was a part of
History Day at the
Legislature.
On Saturday, July 2, 2006, the
Trans-Allegheny Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, dedicated a marker to
Adam Flesher who was 12 years old when he came to what is today's Lewis
County and settled with his father as part of the First Family to live in what
is now Weston.
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