Cass
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Town of Cass founded in 1900 by WV Pulp & Paper. Organized by William Luke and sons, who purchased 70,000 acres of timber, with extensive red spruce used for paper pulp for Luke, MD and later Covington, VA mills. Hungarian, Italian and Austrian immigrants built railroad to bring timber to band-saw mill upriver and connect to Chesapeake & Ohio RR along Greenbrier River.
Sam Slaymaker and Emory Shaffer supervised building of railroad, mill and town for workers. Town named for Joseph Cass, vice president and company investor. Mower Lumber Co. bought & operated, 1942-60. State bought railroad in 1961; town in 1976. Listed on Nat. Register: 1974; 1980.
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