The Mansion House

Take a radio tour of the Highland Museum and Heritage Center, in McDowell, where you’ll find exhibits on Highland County’s country stores, the Battle of McDowell, and the styles of the day from the Mansion House’s days as a hotel.

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Durbin Turns 100

“I just think it’s been a hard year, with the war, and people getting sick,” says Thelma Smith, of Durbin, “We just need to have a good time, and this is a good reason.” Durbin will celebration its Centennial anniversary this weekend with a celebration, including a bonfire, a band, a community pot-luck, and free train rides on the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad.

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Looking for graveyards in Pocahontas County

A small group of volunteers is slowly gathering steam on a project that may never be completed within any of their lifetimes, if in fact if it is ever completed at all. They know the work will never really be finished. They expect that.

The Pocahontas County Genealogy Group has chosen to focus this year on creating an inventory of cemeteries in Pocahontas County before they disappear from memory.

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