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Pocahontas Times Print Shop

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c. 1901. 810 2nd Ave.
  • Pocahontas Times Print Shop (State Historic Preservation Office, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, James E. Harding)

This long, rectangular frame structure, one story tall with a gable roof, houses a newspaper that published its first edition in 1883 in Huntersville, the former county seat. In 1892 the editors moved their operations to Marlinton. The shop houses a hand-fed press, manufactured in New York under patents dated 1882 and 1890, and a paper folder patented in 1893. The owners of the Pocahontas Times acquired the equipment c. 1910. Until the 1980s, the front page of the weekly newspaper was put to bed the old way, using that machinery.

Writing Credits

Author: 
S. Allen Chambers Jr.
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What's Nearby

Pocahontas County Visitor Center (Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Station)
Pocahontas County Historical Museum
Pocahontas County Courthouse
Huntersville Presbyterian Church
McNeel Mill (Mill Point Mill)

Citation

S. Allen Chambers Jr., "Pocahontas Times Print Shop", [Marlinton, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-PC3.

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