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HISTORY of HARDY COUNTY of the Borderland 77^ HISTORY OF HARDY COUNTY of the Borderland By COMMANDER ALVIN EDWARD MOORE Copyright 1963 by The Moorefield Examiner and Hardy County News Moorefield, West Virginia, USA All rights reserved. First printing, 1963. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 63-11065 Sacramento Branch Genealogical Library MCCLAIN PRINTING COMPANY PARSONS, WEST VIRGINIA SAG * SOME ITEMS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: He was: Born and reared in western Louisiana; Appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy at 16 years of age; Educated at: The Naval Academy; George Washington University Law School; John Marshall Law School, Atlanta; The American University; The University of Florida; and Louisiana University (with degrees of B.S. and MA. [History] at American University, and PhJD. university work, in History, nearly completed). He is a member of the Bar of: the Superior Courts of Georgia; The Supreme Court of Georgia; and the U. S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. He has served as an officer in three U. S. aimed services: The Navy (including service in World War II and the Korean War); The Army; and the U. S. Border Patrol. As a civilian, in the U. S. Civil Service, he has served as: Nautical scientist, U. S. Hydrographic Office; U. S. Patent Examin­ er; American Vice Consul (in Mexico); Immigration Inspector; Central Intelligence Agency employee; and patent attorney for the famous von Braun team of missile and spacecraft scientists at Army s Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Recently he retired, at 56 years of age, from the U. S. Civil Service. He is still in the Naval Reserve. H* 18 the mVom of: ^any historical articles, essays, short pubiishedi invaikm s l?;r ??T' one novel. **. llshed in serial form; and one non-fictional book THis book Is dedicated ,„ the future youngsfefs ^ hardy counties of rural America. Commander Alvin Edvard Moore n CONTENTS Page Chapter I 1 Chapter II 13 Chapter III 26 Chapter IV 43 Chapter V 63 Chapter VI 78 Chapter VII 101 Chapter VIII 122 Chapter IX 129 Chapter X 140 16 pages of pictures between pages 152-153 Chapter XI 153 Chapter XII 177 Chapter XIII 209 The Future of Hardy County 225 Epilogue (1950-1963) 230 The Old-Type Life in Hardy County 236 Education and the Younger Generation 245 Economic Progress 259 Communications 261 Transportation 267 Agriculture 267 Centralization versus Individualism and Localism 275 Errata 296 Bibliography g00 — Acknowledgements — 1 n0Wle dge aid in the this first hT" f *<* of research and writing af "sons" °f Hardy C0Unty' W6St Virglnia- fonow- Adminis°artioDn T^' °f Hist°^ «* Dean of Present o ih Tf- ^ Wh° as ^-taat to the ^^JÍ^ÏT™* reC°mmended ™ for this work, and as me t0 WOrk 7LeTco7enüv 7 " " to try to C nclUsions me T ^cL °f ' -ade a trip to Moorefield with me in the collection of materials; some o,MtLW'*!, LT V™ Z*Mt MoorB- wh° *»» "» 1« nr^sr*",ome - ih* ™- - — Dr. Arthur A. Ekirch Jr Ph n auth«. Histnrv B,hnn, . c • ' °r and Professor of ^~OVX:TBS and puMic Affairs'The *»— Ch arorovM mv !f airma n of POrtÍOthe Departmenn f the t of History reaZ d and criticizecTticiz Td Íth e ^par t^ of the manuscrip t °that wa^s written i^n Sociolog^tT^,^ ^ ChaÜ'man' Department of Aff"ÏÏ The L POl°Sy' SCh°01 °f S0CÍal SclenC6S and Public Affairs. The American University, in charge of the 1949 integrated. Wstory was closely connected [his enthusiasm was quite helpful]- History Scho^Ï TT' ^ ^*™™ °f the department of UnÍveTs'ity probl T fPuW° Aftos' The Am™ me ToTS. work ^ ^ wh° -commended me ioi tins work, approved the first nart „f ti, , , course on materials for research Ztj V ^60*' ^ Wh°Se research; »eseaieh in modem history was of aid in the University1' w^Thf ^1^' M* f°rmer President' Th* American integrated stud" In 0 ^ ~sT ™ * cerning my prevlous writmgs m T ,nP H ^ ^™* on the job at Moorefield * ^ ^ by ^ ^^L^i^ ^ «* Wisher, Mooreneia and through TP & W&y thl'°Ugh the ^rniner files through the economic paths of Moorefield has been invaluable; [V Acknowledgements (continued) Mrs. Ralph E. Fisher, Moorefield, whose scrapbook of "Old Timer" columns that she wrote in the Moorefield Examiner was very helpful, and whose comments and aid in arranging for the printing of this history have been of a great deal of value; Robert Mortimer Gamble, Esquire, Clerk of Court, Moore- field, who most generously and helpfully extended aid in con­ nection with the long and detailed research through early Hardy County court records with able general comment pertaining to the historical families and events of the county; Honorable Harlan M. Calhoun, Justice of the West Vir­ ginia Circuit Court at Moorefield, who extended the facilities of his oourt for the advancement of the project; Miss Ellen H. Kuykendall, Assistant Clerk of Court, Moore- field, who supplied' helpful information pertaining to certain old families of Hardy County; Misses Martha and Damaris Gilkeson, "The Meadows" Hardy County, who, as direct descendants of Isaac Van Meter, first resident of Hardy County, supplied helpful information about old families and houses; Reverend Charles W. Kernan, Presbyterian Church, Moore- field, whose comments on Hardy County religious histoiy were helpful; Archivists in charge of records in the Natural Resources, Industrial Records and War Records branches of the U. S. Nation­ al Archives, Washington; Librarians of the Libraiy of Congress, and particularly of the Local History Room and of the Loan Division. V CHAPTER I The writer has been asked: "Why write a his­ tory of a thinly populated mountain county and town?" ... If an atomic war or other catastrophe should de­ stroy large-city civilization, such towns as Moore- field, which since 1777 has clung to the eastern slope of the West Virginia mountains and given impetus to the movement of westing man, probably would be seed tor a new beginning. Such an experience would not be entirely new to Moorefield. In the late 18th and early 19th' Centur­ ies, when it was part of Old Virginia and on the west­ ern frontier of white civilization, westing man paus­ ed here, and adjusted himself to a new set of frontier conditions:—high mountains; cold; small, individual­ ly owned and worked farms, spaced apart by hills and mountains; competition among races, religion white- race social groups, and geographic areas. ' _ In 1898 Frederic Jackson Turner, American his torian, first enunciated what is now commonly callpri the frontier theory of history _ that the receding frontier, with its continual rebirth of human institu tions, had been the major cause of the development of American democracy. But long before this Dom mgo Faustmo Sarmiento of Argentina presented an almost exactly opposite frontier theorý of SLtorv He said that in South America the frontier had! h2n' the place of origin of the hard-riding, hard-swíarinp- hard-drinking gaucho caudillos, who so often had M5Ssr°~headvocate d There are several types of bordpr« rw • ^ frontier expanding typ^ generalfy 'refer?ed to hf Sarmiento and Turner; these two historSnTL J be correct in one argument tiÆÆ^S?ti£ 2 History of Hardy County, of the Borderland frontier type of border—between civilization and the wilderness—is of great importance in history An­ other type is the peacemaking borderland between two strong, conflicting forces of civilization. It so happens that Hardy County comprises one °L^e íw iocall^es in the United States-or the ™£? S Ye^been both of these types of border country Hardy County changed from a frontier be­ tween the (somewhat) civilized white race and the primitive Indian people, to a border area between tw'struggling, nearly equal groups of the white race -the North and the South of middle North America. IL u?^S A af-the line of struggle between íwo weSAnr- the .Indians, on the line of fission be- Mu^T8 and Vil'ginia, and on the Civil War battle line between the North and the South. Was there a change in the people of the County as it moved from one type of border to another? The answer to this question may be significant. Present-day Hardy County1 is made up of a num­ ber oi parallel mountain ridges, less than 3,000 feet nigh, with rivers between the ridges which flow generally northeastward to the Potomac. Imme- ; to the west 0f the county lies Grant County, was ^lvlded from Hardy in 1866; the high wi&ny Mountfns are there, and, in the south- ™ J0™6-1" °f §rant County> Part of the great eastern American divide, with waters on the west nnThïL^T^ thA?H£ and the Gulf of Mexico, and on the east toward the Potomac and the Atlantic. In other words, old Hardy County, which for eenera- nZfrÍlth^ - C?unty area, wa; partS a Z}'Jhysical dividing place-both for waters and J* was a natural borderland; with Rich ™H 'iW 7G ^.^Portant civil war battle oc- lZl »l Sft5 íew^miles d^tant. Here in this border zone at the "Allegheny Front", the wave of Old South 1 West Virginia Encyclopedia, 1929. History of Hardy County, of the Borderland 3 the fartherest north of the neo-classical houses that were created by the man-on-horseback and the slave- with-the-hoe still exist. And here those antebellum mansions were met by the family-farm cottages of the North. In present-day Hardy County two principal rivers flow toward the Potomac—Lost River, which rises in the southern part of the county, flows north to a place near the town of Wardensville, and then goes underground at the base of a mountain, to emerge two and a half miles farther as the Cacapon Kiver; and the South Branch of the Potomac River which for two centuries frequently has been called the South Branch River.
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