Local History

The landscape of Hundred, WV is popping with new happenings, yet things still feel as comfortable as a home cooked...

I found this old photograph in Hundred Library’s tastefully historic rest room, flanked by a framed sketch of Henry “Old Hundred”...

The American Civil War raged on from 1861 to 1865 and is sadly remembered as one of the bloodiest conflicts...

Traditionally speaking, Greene County is pure Appalachia, northern Appalachia specifically, and many of our cultural traditions strongly relate to those...

The stretch of State Rt. 18 aka Golden Oaks Road between Grimes Hill and Nettle Hill rides the Warrior Trail....

The house that sits at the top of Grimes Hill gives little indication it was once one of the many...

When Methodism came to the valley below Grimes Hill in 1852, its first parishioners met at Johnson’s Schoolhouse for Sabbath...

Taking care of a museum can be an endless cycle of maintenance, especially when many of the artifacts and a...

In the early 1830s the bottoms along Dunkard Creek were a remarkably different place than they are today. Long fields...

This undated snapshot of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on the corner of Franklin Street and Fruit Alley shows it...