Looking like a towered and turreted castle, the Leatherman Barn of Buena Vista Farms was built between 1903 and 1907 by George T. Leatherman. The barn cost was $4,229.26, a princely sum at the time but by today’s standa...
Open Saturday Only Hardy County has many homes with Victorian detailing but only a few truly Victorian designed homes. One of the most notable is the Friddle House on South Main Street in Moorefield. The three story house...
Sallie Heiskell Chambers and her husband, John W. Chambers, were living with her father, James R. Heiskell at Sunset View, north of Moorefield at the time of his death in 1883. Mr. Heiskell willed Sunset View to his son...
Photo by Albert Mach The P.T. Shearer House is a classic Greek Revival home built during the early 1840s making it one of the first brick homes in historic Moorefield. The house was constructed in three sections; the fi...
The Peru (pronounced Pea-Rew) store has been a presence along the South Fork Valley for over 100 years. This valley has a long history of stores, mills, post offices, schools and churches every few miles. The farmhouse an...
Mullin Hotel Open Saturday and Sunday Built 166 years ago, in 1847, when West Virginia was the western part of Virginia, the hotel was originally known as the Moorefield Hotel Company and the stockholders included Charles...
Also known as the Fort Pleasant Meeting House, the Old Fields Church holds special significance in the history of the South Branch Valley. It is the oldest church in West Virginia; and because it served, too, as a school ...
Photo: Dan Reichard The Presbyterian Church congregation in Moorefield was organized with 31 members on the rolls in 1838 but traces its roots to itinerant preachers in the 1780s. In 1846, several prominent families deede...
Lost River Artisans’ Cooperative Lost River Artisans Cooperative and the farm family museum are new to the big red building at 8937 State Route 259 in Lost City. However, the property has held many roles in local histor...
Photo: Dan Reichard For more than half a century, McCoy’s Grand Theatre operated continuously as a show place for movies and live performances. Restored and modernized, the structure serves as a home to commu...
