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9 unusual facts about Greenbrier County


Alta, West Virginia

Alta, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia

Dick Pointer

He is best known for his bravery in the defence of Fort Donnally, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from a Shawnee attack in 1778.

Gardner, West Virginia

Gardner, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County

Greenbrier County, West Virginia

One of the heroic defenders of Fort Donnally was an African American slave named Dick Pointer.

By 1774, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of the colonies of New York and Virginia, decided to raise an army of three thousand to go against the Shawnees in their homeland in present-day Ohio.

Meadow River Lumber Company 1

In 1907, John and T.W. Raines began construction on a lumber mill in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, under the name of the Meadow River Lumber Company.

Mörlunda

It gave its name to a community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Palestine, West Virginia

Palestine, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County

St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company

Storage was needed for the millions of logs cut from Pocahontas and upper Greenbrier counties.


Black Twig Pickers

They come from Shawsville and Blacksburg in Montgomery County, Virginia and Lewisburg in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Henry M. Mathews

Born in Frankford, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, he received an A.M. from the University of Virginia and B.L. from Lexington Law School.

Henry Mason Mathews was born on March 29, 1834 in Frankford, Greenbrier County to Eliza (née Reynolds) and Mason Mathews.

WVVA

In addition to its main studios, WVVA operates a Beckley Bureau (on Main Street along North Kanawha Street/WV 210) and a "virtual" Greenbrier Valley Bureau (covering Summers, Monroe, and Greenbrier Counties in West Virginia as well as Giles County, Virginia).


see also

Rorer

Rorer, West Virginia, unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States