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IDNO:: 014150
Title:: Franklin Hotel, Franklin, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Description:: A close-up view of the Franklin Hotel in Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. The hotel was torn down around 1970.

IDNO:: 014152
Title:: Residence and Cannery of E. L. Rice, Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, W. Va.

IDNO:: 014154
Title:: Canning Factory of J. P. Hauvermale on William Street, Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, W. Va.
Date:: 1909

IDNO:: 014155
Title:: Byrd's Hotel, Franklin, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Description:: A close-up view of Byrds Hotel in Franklin, West Virginia. The hotel was built in 1924-25, and replaced Florentine Hotel that was destroyed by fire on April 17, 1924. Dick Byrd, the owner of the hotel, is sitting on the porch.

IDNO:: 014156
Title:: Daugherty Hotel, Franklin, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Description:: A close-up view of the Daugherty Hotel, Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. The hotel was destroyed by fire on April 17, 1924.

IDNO:: 014157
Title:: Harper House on Upper North Fork, Pendleton County, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1930-1940
Description:: 'The Harper House is at the extreme left. Confederate scout Bill Harper killed here during the civil war. The little log house in the center was the home of Leonard and Phebe Hinkle Harper for about nine years. Ther were married Dec. 19, 1816. They lived at Mouth of Seneca four years. Then lived near the Old Cave School House seven years (now Riley Kimble place.) So they would have moved to this log house about 1827. They built the large house here seen to the left in 1836. This farm is 8 miles above Circleville and was long known as the Meadows. Leonard and Phebe had three sons and six daughters. Later Leonard H. Hammer lived here and raised his family of two sons and six daughters. Then his son John and Ada his wife lived here and the farm was in the family continuously until she was killed Sept. 9, 1925. The boy in the foreground is Luther Hammer.'