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James Franklin Comstock (25 February 1911, Richwood, West Virginia - 22 May 1996, Huntington, West Virginia) was a West Virginia writer, newspaper publisher and humorist. He founded the weekly West Virginia Hillbilly (1957-1980) and compiled a definitive 51-volume encyclopedia of West Virginia history and culture.
Hillbilly Hot Dogs was featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives in 2008 on their Flavortown Favorites Episode and two more times in 2010 and 2020. [4] Hillbilly Hot Dogs is a location in the game Fallout 76, as Hillfolk Hot Dogs [5]
Camden Park was established as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Company in 1903, and named after former West Virginia Senator Johnson N. Camden.As steamboat traffic gave way to intercity trolleys, the park was located near the mouth of Twelvepole Creek, where riders traveling between Huntington, Ceredo, Kenova, Ashland, and Coal Grove would stop to change lines.
The new tracks and trolley barn are part of a $2 million project financed by capital funds from the county and the state. The barn has space for up to nine trolleys, allowing the county museum to spend more time working to bring defunct cars back to running order. It has a gallery where visitors can observe the process.
The first known instances of "hillbilly" in print were in The Railroad Trainmen's Journal (vol. ix, July 1892), [2] an 1899 photograph of men and women in West Virginia labeled "Camp Hillbilly", [3] and a 1900 New York Journal article containing the definition: "a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the ...
The Gomaco Trolley Company is a manufacturer of vintage-style streetcars (alternatively called trolleys in the US, or trams in much of the world), located in Ida Grove, Iowa, United States. The company has supplied replica-vintage streetcars to several transit systems in the US, and has also restored and rebuilt authentic vintage streetcars for ...
Nearly 70% of voters in West Virginia chose Trump in 2020. "It's isolating," said 26-year-old Faith Vance, Terra Vance's sister-in-law. "If I say anything even remotely liberal, it's an instant ...
Share certificate issued by the J. G. Brill Company, issued on April 11, 1921 A 1903 Brill-built streetcar on a heritage streetcar line in Sintra, Portugal in 2010. The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars, [1] interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer.