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“Hardy, tenacious, fiercely independent, Indians, Scotch-Irish, Germans, “Stonewall” Jackson, General Lightburn, Freddie Wyant. Trans-Allegheny Asylum for the Insane, the Ice Cream Cone, the Bailey House. Oil and gas, coal, hand blown glass. All describe old Lewis County, the heart of Central West Virginia, where from 1769 to the present its citizens have seen prosperity come and go, where today the community struggles to propel itself into the twenty-first century through tourism and recreation and the newly created
Stonewall Jackson Lake.” So begins the dust-jacket text of A Pictorial History of Old Lewis County: The Crossroads of Central West Virginia. This fully indexed, 224-page award-winning book contains more than 300 pictures and interesting descriptive prose of life in Lewis County. With very few exceptions, every person in every photograph is identified. Text from the photograph captions define the script of the book without being repetitive. Written under the auspices of the Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants by the late Charles
H. Gilchrist and his wife, Joy L. Gregoire Gilchrist (now DeFazio), the book is a “must read” for those with roots in Lewis County. Published by Donning Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Walsworth Publishing Company.