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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.
Oct. 28—Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Company's trolley car No. 220 left Public Square at 2:50 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1908, on its way to Luzerne Borough with stops along Wyoming Avenue in ...
The Hillbilly Highway was a parallel to the better-known Great Migration of African-Americans from the south. Many of these Appalachian migrants went to major industrial centers such as Detroit, Chicago, [2] Cleveland, [3] Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, Toledo, and Muncie, [4] while others traveled west to ...
Humboldt Transit Company [3] Electric September 15, 1903: February 20, 1940 Visalia Electric Railroad [3] Exeter: Electric Interurban 1904: 1944 Diesel 1944: 1992 Fresno Traction Company [3] Fresno: Horse Streetcar January 25, 1889: September 1901 Electric October 19, 1902: May 20, 1939 Glendale and Montrose Railway [3] ♦ Glendale: Electric ...
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 ...
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 ...