Search Results
- IDNO:
- 022232
- Title:
- Flying Eagles Band, Woodrow Wilson High School, Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1942
- IDNO:
- 022233
- Title:
- Aerial View of Raleigh General Hospital and County Armory, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1950-1970
- Description:
- Raleigh General Hospital is in the center of the picture and the Raleigh County Armory is featured on the top right. Both were built in the 1920s and demolished in the 1960s.
- IDNO:
- 022234
- Title:
- Aerial View of Crab Orchard, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1957
- IDNO:
- 022235
- Title:
- Hearses Await the Dead after the Eccles Mine Explosion on April 8, 1926
- Date:
- 1926
- IDNO:
- 022236
- Title:
- Pluto Missionary Baptist Church, Richmond District, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1980-2000
- Description:
- Pluto Baptist Church in the Richmond District of Raleigh County, built in 1893.
- IDNO:
- 022237
- Title:
- Jewish Temple, Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1994
- Description:
- Jewish temple in Beckley, built in 1934.
- IDNO:
- 022238
- Title:
- St. Colman's Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1980-2000
- IDNO:
- 022239
- Title:
- Bird's Eye View of Lester, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1978
- IDNO:
- 022240
- Title:
- Monument to Mine Disasters, Eccles, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1980-2000
- Description:
- 'This memorial is dedicated to those men who died on April 28, 1914 and March 8, 1926 in explosions at the Eccles five and six mines. Their contribution to the economic growth of this country will not be forgotten.'
- IDNO:
- 022241
- Title:
- Historic Marker for Mitchell Clay, Mercer County, W.Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1960
- Description:
- 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.'
- IDNO:
- 022242
- Title:
- Matoaka Baseball Team, Mercer County, W.Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1910
- Description:
- Baseball team from Matoaka, W.Va., with Charles Wheeler on the far right and Peach Trail behind the mascot. The pitcher was Clay Ratliff.
- IDNO:
- 022243
- Title:
- Train Collision, Mercer County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1927
- Description:
- 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.'
