Historical Markers -- at last!

http://www.hmdb.org/

My mother told how her folks, Katherine "Byrd" Vaughan and Lewis Coe worked at a lumber camp one winter in the Hills of West Virginia. The train ran to Camden on Gauley, WV and then somehow, they were loaded up and taken "up" the mountain to the lumber camp. Granny was only 3 or so and just had a few memories of this time plus what her Mother had told her. She and her older brother were pretty much doted on by the lumber jacks as they were the only children around. I'm not sure what my Grampa's job duties were . . . maybe just plain lumber jack but my Granny was the cook. Can you imagine cooking for a crew of 20-30 men, morning, noon and night?

Anyway, Camden on Gauley would have been on the Gauley River so this Historical Marker caught my eye when Himself and I were in West Virginia this month.

Actually, all Historical Markers catch my eye and I always want to stop and read them. I don't always get to stop but I am always ready to stop. So a year or so ago, Kristy and Tony told us of an idea Tony had (the way I remember it, anyway) of creating a data base of Historical Marker locations. I thought that was a great idea and I even started my own data base of places I have been, what town has all the brick houses?, what town is the best example of French/Creole houses in the US? what town has the water tower with a smiley face, etc.

Then. There! Last evening while trying to learn more about the Gauley River and this historical marker, I found this web-site -- the Historical Marker Data Base. Yep. There is one and it is good.

Sorry, Tony . . . someone beat you to it! http://www.hmdb.org/

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