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Nov 14, 2011

Stories from the Seneca Trail, U.S. Route 219.

Recent Posts by The 219 Project

By The 219 Project - 04/30
Our website is up, people are listening to our stories on WV Morning and Inside Appalachia! Check us out at www.Traveling219.com. Find out where to find fresh ground ...
By The 219 Project - 04/10
Many of us have spotted the pink tepee of Pocahontas County, jutting out from the tip of the mountain above Marlinton. If Elk Mountain were the nose on our face, dear ...
By The 219 Project - 04/06
This is a photo of Grace Davis, who was the daughter of Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, a millionaire who co-founded the city of Elkins. You might recognize her father ...
By The 219 Project - 03/30
This photo of a hayfield on top of Droop Mountain is from Helen Graves, who found this among some of the photos her mother Virginia Campbell had collected. Though ...
By The 219 Project - 03/09
Dear Reader, Those of us living off Route 219 know it not only has long winding curves, but a long history as well.  On a recent trip to Oakland Maryland we ...
By The 219 Project - 03/06
  Hold on folks, we’re headed south to Monroe County for this blog entry. And we just found out that one of our favorite places near US 219, the Old Sweet Springs ...
By The 219 Project - 02/24
We happened to stop at Sharp’s Country Store on our way up to Elkins today, which very often is a frequent stop for us on our travels up and down US 219. Have you ...
By The 219 Project - 02/21
  The board game Monopoly was invented in 1935, the same year the CCC camp of Droop Mountain was employing about 160 men at any given time. The camp purchased two ...
By The 219 Project - 02/17
Dear Readers,   We are excited to announce that our website complete with interviews and photographs from US 219, will premier in less than a month! Look for it ...
By The 219 Project - 01/24
Ok, so we all know it is great to talk to our grandparents and those who have "lived a little" about history. But this week we have been talking to second graders! I ...
By The 219 Project - 01/11
The New Year has come and here we all continue to drive up and down that old road... "That old road", I'm talking about is Highway 219. For the New Year we have ...
By The 219 Project - 12/21
Just off of HWY 219, Frankford: the Bell Family farm. Take a close look at this photograph from the early 1900s and see a platform built into the fence for easy ...
By The 219 Project - 12/13
Getting ready for the holidays? Stopped in the post office to send packages of cookies, fudge and holiday cheer? Well, here is something to think about next time ...
By The 219 Project - 12/08
Dear Reader, Did you make it to the craft show last weekend? If you did, then you saw the LIVE on stageperformance brought to you by "The 219 Project". Two high ...