PreservingPocahontas

06/04/2026

Here's a fun that was in The Pocahontas Times a few weeks ago -- a bill made out to Mrs. Laura Taylor in Dunmore from PMH, dated February 13, 1949.

Photo use courtesy of Preserving Pocahontas.

05/23/2026

05/22/2026

Visit The Burner Homeplace in Cass, West Virginia.

The Burner Homeplace will be open Saturdays from 11am-4pm beginning this Saturday!!!

05/20/2026

We need historians because what we remember matters.

Public memory shapes how we understand who we are and what we value. Historians play a key role in researching, preserving, and interpreting those shared stories in museums, memorials, and public spaces.

How we remember the past influences how we move forward.

What place or memorial has shaped how you think about history?

05/16/2026

Road into Cass. Taken by my dad 1970s I don't know enough about Cass to comment on this.

Photo and caption contributed by Robert Harris.

05/14/2026

By request, a throw back to the "new" hospital, circa 1935, just a few years after it was first opened.

Photo use courtesy of Preserving Pocahontas.

05/03/2026

PRESS RELEASE Lewisburg, West Virginia - Carnegie Hall invites the community to an illuminating evening celebrating one of Appalachia’s most influential

05/01/2026

(1964) Construction of the 140-foot telescope in Green Bank, WV.

The 140-foot telescope was completed in 1965, after 6 years of design and construction. In this photo, the first of 60 total aluminum surface panels are being installed.

📸 Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/Archives

03/13/2026