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Mules hauling carts across a wooden bridge.

1. Mule Train at Fire Creek, W. Va.

IDNO:
003936
Title:
Mule Train at Fire Creek, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1886
Description:
Mules hauling carts across a wooden bridge.
People standing outside of the Fire Creek Store.

2. Store at Fire Creek, W. Va.

IDNO:
003966
Title:
Store at Fire Creek, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1886
Description:
People standing outside of the Fire Creek Store.
Front: The North Western Virginia Academy built in 1843. Replaced by the Towers Public School building in 1894. This picture was taken prior to the year 1886. Back: 'And don't you remember the School Ben Bolt. With the master so cruel and grim and the shanded nook in the running brook- Where the children went to swim- Grass grows on the masters grave Ben Bolt. The spring of the brook is dry. And of all the boys who were schoolmates then there are only you and I.'

3. Northwestern Virginia Academy, Clarksburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
005659
Title:
Northwestern Virginia Academy, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1886
Description:
Front: The North Western Virginia Academy built in 1843. Replaced by the Towers Public School building in 1894. This picture was taken prior to the year 1886. Back: 'And don't you remember the School Ben Bolt. With the master so cruel and grim and the shanded nook in the running brook- Where the children went to swim- Grass grows on the masters grave Ben Bolt. The spring of the brook is dry. And of all the boys who were schoolmates then there are only you and I.'
A close-up view of the 23rd Reunion of the Army West Virginia in Fairmont, West Virginia.

4. Reunion of the Army of West Virginia, Fairmont, W. Va.

IDNO:
005808
Title:
Reunion of the Army of West Virginia, Fairmont, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1886
Description:
A close-up view of the 23rd Reunion of the Army West Virginia in Fairmont, West Virginia.
'One of the last diamond smoke stack engines used by C. & O. Ry. out of Huntington about 1886. Ast Nagle Sr, engineer. Mrs. T. J. Bullock has the original of this. Says it was taken circa 1875 when her husband was a hostler on the C&O, The man at the throttle is T. J. Bullock and the foreman is ___ Bill.'

5. One of the Last Diamond Smoke Stack Engines Used by Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

IDNO:
025812
Title:
One of the Last Diamond Smoke Stack Engines Used by Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Date:
ca. 1886
Description:
'One of the last diamond smoke stack engines used by C. & O. Ry. out of Huntington about 1886. Ast Nagle Sr, engineer. Mrs. T. J. Bullock has the original of this. Says it was taken circa 1875 when her husband was a hostler on the C&O, The man at the throttle is T. J. Bullock and the foreman is ___ Bill.'

6. Unidentified Jollife Family Member

IDNO:
051713
Title:
Unidentified Jollife Family Member
Date:
ca. 1886