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The
HINTON NEWS
(Continuing the Hinton Daily Nes & The Weekend Leader)
Home of the W. Va. Water Festival
Volume 90 No. 15
Hinton, West Virginia Tuesday Aug. 6, 1991
25 Cents
Water Festival: INational Railroadl
Something for Everyone!
By Sheri Benson
Summers County was busy and
Hinton a hive of activity, this past
week, providing sights and doings in
*celebration of the WV Water Festi-
val; an event to please every pleas.
ure seeker offered from boat races to
marching parades. A Pretty Baby
Contest to dancing in the streets.
The two parades, Friday's Fire-
mane Parade and Saturday's Grand
Parade, thrilled adults and children
alike, aGranny the firetruck,
"musical" ambulances, and candy
throwing princesses, over 30 trucks
and cars altogether sounded through
town, on Friday evening.
Saturday afternoon's parade
brought flashy dancers, clowns,
musicians and fancy hot rod cars,
spiced with beauty queens and prin-
cesses. The Pizza Hut entry, we
understand, took first place.
The skies over Hinton glowed neon
with Friday night fireworks. D.J.
music bounced through the air
Thurs., Fri. and Sat. night, giving
good cause for dancingin the streets.
If you missed any of.the festival
this year, cheer upl There's always
next year's Water Festival which
continues gettingbetter and better!!
Historical Society
to Visit Hinton
Main Street Hinton will be host-
ing the National Railroad Historical
Society (NRHS) upon their arrival
on the New River Train on Aug.
10th. The Collie P. Huntington
Chapter is sponsoring the annual
convention for the NRHS in Hunt-
ington Aug. 7 - 10. The double-headed
steam excursion (CSX-Nickel Plate
765 and Pere Marquette 1225) will
arrive in Hinton at approximately
WATER FESTIVAL
WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The family feld day was held at Free Throw: Huck Conner, 2nd - and 2nd - Frank Young.
the Bellepoint Little League Park on
Sun. Aug. 4th. This is an annual
event of the WV Water Festival. This
year it was sponsored bythe Kiwa-
nis Club of Hinton and the Hinton
High School Key Club. winners
of the events werl announced by
Chairman James Martin.
Human Wheelbarrel: 1st - Ron
and Rachel Pack, 2nd - Steve
Shrader/Drew Meadows, and 3rd -
Cathy Bennett/Rodney Fix;
100 Yds. Dash - (14 & under)- 1st
- Robert Tolbert, 2nd - David Koe-
nig, 3rd - Rachel Pack, and 4th -
John Michae! Burgess.
100 Yds. Dash (14 & and over): 1st
- Steve Shrader, 2nd - Rodney Fix,
3rd - Drew Meadows, and 4th - Faye
Waddell.
Egg Toss: 1st (Tie)- Connie/Faye
Waddell and Ron Pack/Irl Koenig,
?2nd - David Koenig/Robert Tolbert,
and 3rd - Cathy Bennett/Rodney Fix.
3-Legged Race: 1st- Valerie Pack/
Karl Koenig, 2nd - Ron and Rachel
Pack, 3rd - Connie Tolbert/Jerri
Merriam, and 4th- Steve Richmond/
Charlie Merriam.
Balloon Toss: 1st - Ron Pack/Karl
Koenig, 2nd - Faye Waddell/Vickie
Whitten, 3rd - Jerri and Kathy
Merriam, and 4th - Cathy Bennett /
Rodney Fix.
2-Man Relay: 1st- Huck Conner/
James Harvey, 2nd - Charlie Mer-
Ham/Steve Richmond, 3rd - Drew
Meadows/Steve Shrader, and 4th -
David Koenig/Robert Tolbert.
One-Legg Race (11 & Under): 1st
- Rachel Pack, 2nd - Kim Waddell,
and 3rd - Michael Savage.
One-Legg Race (12 & Over): 1st-
James Harvey, 2nd - Ron Pack, 3rd
- Huck Conner, and 4th - Steve
Richmond.
Balloon Carry: let Steve
Richmond/Charlie Merriam, 2nd -
Robert Tolbert/Jerry Merriam, 3rd -
Mike Harvey/Cheryl Lowry, and 4th
- Faye Waddell/Vicky Whitten.
Assorted Relay: 1st . Steve
Richmond/Charlie Merriam/Jerri
Merriam/Connie Tolbert, 2nd- Steve
Shrader/Drew Meadows/Valerie and
Ron Pack, and 3rd - David Koenig/
Ronald and Robert Tolbert/Scott
Wiseman.
Scott Wiseman, 3rd Steve Male/60 & Over: 1st - Dave Kiln-
Richmond, and 4th - Steve Shrader. gensmith.
2-Egg Toss (14 & Under): 1st - Female/14 & Under: 1st - Meg
Rachel Pack/Robert Tolbert, 2nd - Ziegler.
David Koenig/Ronald Tolbert, and Female/20-29: 1st - Susie Ed-
3rd - Karl Koenig/Jarrod.- ..... wards; and 2nd Sherri Snead.
2-EggsToss: 1st- Steve Richmond/
Charlie Merriam, 2nd- Rachel Pack/
Robert Tolbert, and 3rd - Faye
Murrell/Vickie Whitten.
5-K RACE AND WALK
WINNERS
The New River 5-KRace and Walk
was held on Thurs. Aug. 1in Hinton.
The race course was from the Belle-
point Little League Park along Rt.
107 to the Kroger Store and return
to the Park. The 5-K Race was held
in conjunction with the W.Va. State
Water Festival.
The winners were as follows in
the 5-K Race:
Male/14 & under: 1st -]]rent
Carter, 2nd - Jason McKinney, and
3rd- Brad Carter.
Male/15-19: Ist- Chris Flanagan,
2nd - Robert Steven Cook, and 3rd -
Ray Williams.
Male/20 - 29: 1st - John Snead,
2nd - Kevin Peters, and 3rd - Mark
Cumings.
Male/30.39:1st- Howard Nicely,
2nd - Don Malart and 3rd - Bruce
Blankenship.
Male/40 - 49: 1st - Wayne Ben.
nett, 2nd - Danny Keaffey, and 3rd-
Dock Weiss.
Male/50 - 59: let - Larry Mangus,
2nd - Arnold Massie, and 3rd. John
Alonley.
Male/60 and Over. 1st - Tom Gil-
liam.
Female/14 & Under: let - Lore
Swepton.
Female/15/19: 1st Destiny
Dodrill, and 2nd - Anises Cundiff.
Female/20-29: let- Charity
McDaniel, 2nd - Tracy Hedges, and
3rd - Lisa Puckett.
Female/30-39: 1st - Mary Jane
Walthall, 2nd - Renada Scagge
Nicely, and 3rd - Tammy Clark.
Female/40-49: let - Donna Akers,
2nd - Diane Weiss, and 3rd - Nancy
Hodges.
Female/50-59: let -Bea Donley.
The Winners in 5-K Walk are:
Male/50-59: let- Donnie Lambert
Announces
Candidacy
G. Ernest Skaggs, former city
judge for Hinton, Saturday, filed with
the Seetary of State's Office a pre-
registration form for the office of
Circuit Judge for the newly formed
32nd Circuit composed of Summers
and Monroe counties.
The purpose of pre-registration,
according to Skaggs, is that it gives
the candidate an opportunity to
engage in political activities to see,
whether he actually wishes to seek
that office in January.
Skaggs, registered Democrat,
feels" that in the January election
there will be a particularly height-
ened interest in the prosecuting
attorney' s race, as well as the Judge's
race, part/cularly in Summers
County, due to recent surges in
crimes such as arson.
Skaggs, a Fayettov/lle attorney,
is also a former Summers -County
school teacher, who now practices
law with his wife, Nancy S. Sksggs,
in the partnership of Sksggs &
Sk
Femahd30-39 let - Linda Evans,
2nd - Kathy Evans, and 3rd - Kar]a
Gunnoe.
Female/40-49: 1st Rhonda
Bazsika, 2nd - Geri Borst, and 3rd -
Linda Phillips.
PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
WINNERS
The W.Va. State Water Festival
held their Annual Photography Show
on Aug. I at the Visitors Center in
downwn Hinton. The Photography
Show was coordinated by Sam Hicks
of Princeton. Judges for the event
were Mr. Steve Jessie of Associated
Photography of Princeton and Mr.
Curt Meseer of Meseer's Photo of
Hinton. There were 61 entries at the
1991 show. The results of the judg-
ing were:
Best of Show - Color: Charlie
Crabtree, Princeton.
Best of Show . Black & White:
Michael Crews, Princeton.
Flowers - Color: 1st - Charlie
Crabtree, Princeton, 2nd- Janet
Land, Bluefield, 3rd - Buck Lucade,
Bluefield, and HM - Michael Crews,
Princeton.
Still Live - Color: 1st - Marie
Butler, Princeton, 2nd - Sam Hicks,
Princeton, 3rd - Charlie Crabtree,
Princeton, and HM - Sam Hicks,
Princeton.
People-Color. 1st - Buck Lucado,
Blue(ield, 2nd - Sam Hicks, Prince.
ton, 3rd - Sarah Thorn, Princeton,
and HM - Sarah Thorn, Princeton.
Pets - Color. 1st - Mark Dye, Rock
2nd - Sarah Thorn, Princeton, 3rd -
Lena Hall, Princeton, and HM -
Marie Buffer, Princeton.
Scenic. Color: 1st - Sam Hicks,
Princeton, 2nd - Chalrie Crabtree,
Princeton, 3rd - Michael Crews,
Princeton, HM - Janet Land, Blue.
field, HM - Buck Lucado, Bluefield,
HM. Ursia Wyrick, Princeton, and
HM - Sam Hicks, Princeton.
HintordSummers CO.-COlor: 1st-
Sam Hicks, Princeton, 2nd - Marie
Butler, Princeton, 3rd . Brenda
Hedge, Hinton, HM- Marie Buffer,
Princeton, HM - Marion Heath,
Hinton, and HM - Marie Buffer,
Princeton.
HinWJSummers CO.-B&W: let -
Buck Lucado, Bluefield, and 2nd -
Marie Buffer, Princeton.
Scenic-B&W: 1st-Michael Crews,
Princeton, 2hal-Michael Crews,
Princton, 3rd - Buck Lucado, Blue.
field, and HM -June Carr, Blue field.
Still Life -B&W: 1st. Lena Hall,
Princeton.
Pete - B&W: 1st - Buck Lucado,
Bluefield.
Fiowers.B&W: 1st - Midmel
Crews, Princeton.
People. B&W: 1st - June Can',
Bluefield, 2nd - Sam Hicks, Prince-
ton, and 3rd - June Can', Bluefield.
1:00 p.m. on Sat.
A Street Falris planned all day on
Sat. in downtown historic Hinton.
Arts and crafts, homemade foods,
and exhibits will be on display. This
activity is similar to the annual
Railroad Days event scheduled for
Oct. 12, 13, 19 and 20. Live enter-
tainment will be provided by Jimmy
Costa, a local musician and histo-
rian.
The Hinton Railroad Museum will
be open from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. A special
admission price will be $1.00 for
adults and 50 cents for students.
The museum features C&O memo-
rabilia, an He Mode] Train, Hinton
Depot furnishings and many other
railroad artifacts. The museum is
located in the Summers County
Visitors Center downtown. The
Visitors Center also houses the
Crafter's GALLERY featuring hand-
CAPTURES AWARD
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Frontier Forts Located
Stella Kay Harvey, daughter of Jack and Sharon Harvey of Hill-
dale, fared well in the Miss WV National Teenager Pageant held
June 21-23 at Marshall University, in Huntington. Stella placed
second runner-up in the Junior Division. She was among 80 other
participants in the pageant. The competition consisted era talent/
essay competition, a personal interview and evening gown catego-
ries. She was escorted by her father. Stella, 15, is an honor student
was under attack by Shawnee Indi-
ans in 1780, at which time Mrs.
Drennon, Mrs. Smith and a child
were captured. Mrs. Drennon was
later killed.
Warwick's Fort was probably a
private stockade or blockhouse built
in the early 1770's.
Other forts investigated were:
Stuart's Fort and Fort Savannah in
Greenbrier Co.; Wood's Fort in
Monroe Co. and Day's Fort in Poca-
hontas Co. It is believed these fort
sites were located.
In Summers County, Baughman's
Fort, Ferrell's Fort and VanBibber's
Fort were studied but no definite
location was established.
Baughman's Fort is from the
French and Indian War period and
constructedin 1754 or 1755 near the
A]derson Federal Prison. =The loca-
tion chosen to search" was the soR-
ball field behind the warden's reei-
dence, according to the report. nis
area was chosen because a number
of possible eighteenth century arti-
facts, including a brass button and a
flintlock mechanism were reportedly
found during the construction of the
softball field."
The survey uncovered 25 artifacts
some fairly early in the 1790's,
#but no artifacts suggesting a 1750's
occupation were recoverd." Accord-
ing to the report, if the fort was
located in this area it is probably
greatly disturbed. This situation
and this site's early and short occu-
pation will make it very difficult to
find.
A total of 125 artifacts were re-
coved at eight different possible lo-
cations for Ferrell's Fort which was
in the Camp Lightfood area. Only
one artifact suggested the fort's lo-
cation, and because the area has
seen a lot of "disturbance this site
has little future potential," accord-
ing to the survey report.
The last site, VanBibber's Fort,
near Lowell, also proved to be a dis-
appointment.
VanBibber's Fort was built be-
tween 1771 and 1773 by John
VanBibber about 300 yards across
Continued on page 2
CORRECTION
That's Terry E. Smith in the photo
and story, last week, concerning four
Sheriff's deputies that recently
completed training at the WV Cor.
rections Academy. We inadvertently
identified Terry E. Smith as his
brother, Jerry. Terry graduated from
the 60th County Basic Class with a
83.07 average.
By Fred Long
A year long investigation of fron-
tier forts in Southern WV by the
Summers County Historic Land-
mark Commission and the Univer-
sity of Kentucky Program for Cul-
tural Resource Assessment con-
firmed the location, or the possible
location, of several Revolutionary
War period forts where settlers once
sought refuge from Indian hostili-
ties, according to a report released
yesterday.
"This is a major archaeological
survey of frontier life in the Green-
brier-Middle New River valleys
during this areas earliest occupa-
tion, Steve Trail, President of the
Landmark Commission, said. The
survey area included fort sites in
Summers, Monroe, Greenbrier and
Pocahontas counties and the loca-
tion of at least six fort sites were
definitely confirmed.
The 75 page survey report, con-
ducted and prepared by Dr. W.
Stephen McBride, a former Lewis-
burg resident and Historic Archae-
olagist at th UniversityofKentucky,
is the first step in what Trail hopes
will result in the re-construction of
Arbuckle's Fort nearAlderson. %Ve
plan to continue our research in this
area," he said, "and eventually re-
build this fort on the original site.
The land has already been donated
for this purpose. If this materializes
it will be a major tourist develop-
ment and a major development for
the historical community."
According to Trail the study has
already gained prominence within
the historical/archaeology commu-
nity. The Society for Historic Ar-
chaeology in the Americas will be
meeting in Jamaica in January
where McBride will be presenting a
paper to the society on his findings.
Trail plans to attend the two week
meeting which will include repre-
sentatives from all the nations in
North and South America, he said.
alone underlines the signifi.
eance of this survey," Trail said.
Arbuckle's Fort, which was built
in 1774 on Muddy Creek above Alder-
tan, according to the report, "was
used as arecruitment station in 1774
in preparation for the advance to-
ward Point Pleasant where settlers
defeated the Shawnee Indians and
Chief Cornstalk, a battle considered
by many historians to be the first
imtffe of the Revolutionary War.
Atotalof48historic artifacts were
found at this site by using a combi-
nation of screened shovel probes and
a metal deteetor. lnree of the more
interesting artifacts recovered," the
report points out, is a "well-used
French (honey colored) gunflint, a
white metal button with a star-burst
design, and a wrought barbed point
or gig." The button is similar to the
type that generally date to 1726-
1812 and the gig was probably used
to spear fish.
An interesting point is that this
fort may also be the fort referred to
in Josiah Meadows' Revolutionary
War papers as Keeney's Fort. Mead-
ows, one of Summers County's earli-
est settlers, speaks of holding up at
Keeney's Fort during this period.
Although the fort wasconstructsd
by Captain Mathew Arbuckle as a
"militia fort it was on property that,
at that time, was owned by John
Keeney. "In fact," the report said,
"John Keeney was in the Muddy
Creek area as early as 1750.52."
Another major fort in the Green.
brier valley during this period was
Donnally's Fort, a stockade and
house constructed by Andrew Don-
nally in 1771. It was at this fort, on
May 29, 1778, that Dick Pointer, a
black man and slave of Donnally's,
saved the life of 25 men and 60
women and children with a single
gun shot from an old flint-lock mus-
ket. Eye witness accounts estimate
that upwards to 200 Shawnee Indi-
ans had broken into the stockade
and were beating down the door to
the house when Pointer fred his
musket killing and wounding nine.
It was the only shot fired but it was
enough to give the settler time tore-
bar the door as the Indians retreated.
Pointer's heroic stand against the
Indians prevented them from gain-
ing absolute control of the whole
western country.
A total of 225 historic artifacts
were recovered suggesting that the
site investigated was likely the site
of' the fort, according to the report.
The survey also located the site of
Cooks Fort and Second Creek Fort,
in Monroe Co., along with Drennon's
Fort and John Warwick's Fort, in
Pocahontas Co.
Cook's Fort was probably a pri-
vate fort constructed about 1770 by
Valentine Cook on Indian Creek. "It
supposedly covered one and a half
acres, and provided shelter for 300
people in the summer of 1778," ac..
cording to the survey report.
Second Creek Fort was a private
fort constructed about 1780by James
Knox on Second Creek scuth of
Ronceverte.
Drennon's Fort was constructed
about 1774 by Thomas Drennon and