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Historical marker regarding Mitchell Clay, with Joyce Balding Wood looking on. 'Here Mitchell Clay settled in 1775. Eight years later Indians killed two of his children and captured his son, Ezekiel.  Pursuers killed several of the Indians but the boy was taken into Ohio and burned at the stake.'

1. Historic Marker for Mitchell Clay, Mercer County, W.Va.

Baseball team from Matoaka, W.Va., with Charles Wheeler on the far right and Peach Trail behind the mascot.  The pitcher was Clay Ratliff.

2. Matoaka Baseball Team, Mercer County, W.Va.

Train collision occurred six miles east of Princeton, Mercer County, at about noon on May 24, 1927.  'Two trainmen were killed and about twenty people were injured.  The accident occurred fourteen cars west of the first tunnel at Ingleside when Virginian Railway (now Norfolk Southern) westbound passenger train No. 3, the steam locomotive, met head-on with one of the huge eastbound electric motors hauling about 100 loaded coal cars downgrade, pushing No. 3 back down the grade a distance of 270 feet.  The passenger locomotive climbed on top of the electric motor.  The Virginian had been electrified from Mullens, W.Va. to Roanoke, Va. in 1925-1926.'

3. Train Collision, Mercer County, W.Va.