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1. Women Building Oven, Butchersville, Lewis County, W. Va.

"The Weston State Hospital, also known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, was constructed in the late 1800s and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990. It is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America, and is purportedly the second largest in the world, next to the Kremlin. The original hospital, designed to house 250 souls, was open to patients in 1864 and reached its peak in the 1950s with 2,400 patients in overcrowded and generally poor conditions. Changes in the treatment of mental illness and the physical deterioration of the facility forced its closure in 1994 inflicting a devastating effect on the local economy, from which it has yet to recover. Today, the hospital is open to historical tours and ghost tours."

2. Weston State Hospital, Weston, W. Va.

A man stands on top of a giant heap of hay, while another lifts hay onto the heap. A third man sits at behind the mower, holding the reigns of the horses that are pulling the large mowing machine across the field.

3. Horse-Drawn Mower Harvesting Hay likely in Lewis County, W. Va.

A group of men are picture beside a sawmill and furnace. The sawmill is located in the Good Hope area, which crosses over into Harrison County. Subjects unidentified.

4. Saw Mill Crew Possibly in Jane Lew, Lewis County, W. Va.

The players pose together for a team portrait. Two men in the background are sporting American flags on their jackets and hats, perhaps indicating it is Fourth of July.

5. Good Hope Baseball Team, Jane Lew Area, W. Va.

Butcher leans against an automobile outside the store in Lewis County, W. Va.

6. Robert Hugh Butcher Outside Hitt's Store, Weston, W. Va.

Butcher stands in front of a tire at Hitt's Filling Station in Weston, W. Va. He is 3 years old in this photograph.

7. James Leonard Butcher at Filling Station in Weston, W. Va.

Claude Turner poses with his two dogs while his granddaughter Elizabeth Carole Butcher (b. 1934) balances on the automobile's bumper. Elizabeth later married a Weaver family member.

8. Claude Turner and Granddaughter with Dogs, Weston, W. Va.

Portrait of a young Wilda Juanita Turner as she reads a book.

9. Wilda Juanita Turner Butcher, Weston, W. Va.

Juanita, pictured on the left standing, is with her friends Wilda, Ruth, Garlow, Virginia, Jo, and Bobbie.

10. Juanita Turner and Friends, Polk Creek, Weston, W. Va.

The church was organized in 1804.  The present church in Jane Lew was built and  dedicated in 1887.

11. Former Congregation Enters Broad Run Baptist Church, Jane Lew, Lewis County, W. Va.

An unidentified man poses in front of a haystack, which is surrounded by a wooden fence.

12. Farmer Beside a Haystack in Lewis County, W. Va.