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Kiahs Creek, Wayne and Lincoln Counties, WV

#KiahsCreek in Wayne and Lincoln Counties, #WV #WayneCounty #LincolnCounty #nature #photos #Appalachia

Black Bear, Francis Fork of Kiahs Creek, WV. Photo by Mom. 2015

House With the Rock, Wade Adkins Branch of Kiahs Creek, WV. 15 July 2016

Log Structure on Francis Fork of Kiahs Creek, WV. 31 August 2019

Mountain Home Cemetery, Trough Fork of Kiahs Creek, Wayne County, WV. 5 August 2017

New Salem Old Regular Baptist Church, Big Laurel Fork of Kiahs Creek, Wayne County, WV. 15 July 2016

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Queens Ridge 03.23.1923

Community news for #QueensRidge #LincolnCounty #WayneCounty #WV (1923) #Appalachia #history #genealogy

A correspondent named “Black Eyes” from Queen’s Ridge at Lincoln-Wayne counties, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on March 23, 1923:

The Trough Fork school will close on the 23rd day of this month. Everybody come.

Woodrow Workman has returned home from a two weeks vacation on Francis Creek.

Jim Ramey celebrated his sixtieth birthday last Thursday.

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James I. Kuhn Deed to William Mann and Isaac Gartin (1879)

James Kuhn Deed to William Manns and Isaac Gartin (1879) #LittleHartsCreek #LincolnCounty #WV

Deed Book 53, page 284, Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Hamlin, WV. Typically, the Kuhn-Lowe deeds granted land already owned by the grantees but reserved mineral rights. The idea was to grant “disputed” surface ownership in exchange for relinquishment of claims to mineral rights. Local property owners who did not wish to challenge the mineral claim in court accepted the Kuhn-Lowe deed. Lincoln…

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