On this day in 1929 the Little River Lumber Company turned over 7,916 acres of timberland to the Great Smoky Mountains commission, largely ending a dispute over the right to
In 1923 a rigid airship, made with new material produced by Alcoa Aluminum in Pittsburgh, became the U. S. Navy’s flagship aircraft. Two years later this airship came down in
On this day in 1925 David Curtis Stephenson, known as D. C., was indicted on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill, assault and battery with criminal intent,
In the 1920’s two men from eastern Europe were going around the Appalachian region scamming people out of large sums of money, pretending they were paying back “family debts” incurred
On this day in 1925 an explosion ripped through Bethlehem Mines’ Barrackville mine number 41 near Fairmont, West Virginia. 34 men were trapped in the mine by the blast. There
In 1870 the first official West Virginia state capitol building was built, a very ornate Italianate structure in Charleston. That building was added onto in 1887 with an addition. This
On January 6, 1921 Anderson Hatfield, better known as Devil Anse, died at his home on Island Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, of pneumonia. He was the head of
On this day one hundred years ago Scott Dillingham was arrested in Dallas, Texas. Dillingham was an Asheville, North Carolina, used car salesman and his arrest made the papers in
Stone was a small unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky. It was named not for any rocks or boulders found there; instead, it’s named after the Chairman of the Pond
A hundred years ago two men were captured near Harriman, Tennessee, after an intense manhunt. They, along with two other men, were responsible for an attempted armed bank robbery, two