Summers

Green Sulphur Springs, WV

The nearby highway is part of route traversing W. Va.

Hinton, WV

The great tunnel of the C & O Railroad was started at Big Bend in 1870 and completed three years later.

Forest Hill, WV

Forest Hill United Methodist Church, founded in 1835, served as temporary shelter in 1863 for 23rd Ohio Vol. Inf.

Hinton, WV

One of two pre-Revolutionary forts built along the banks of the New River at Culbertson’s (now Crump’s) Bottom to shelter area settlers,...

Hinton, WV

South on New River at Crump's Bottom, Fort Culbertson was built, 1774, at outbreak of Dunmore's War by Capt. James Robertson on order of...

Near site of Fort Greenbrier, commanded by Capt. John Van Bibber during Indian raids in 1777.

Approx. site of 40 mile post of 118 mile turnpike auth.

Hinton, WV

Named for its founder.

Hinton, WV

Babe Ruth's first two major league home runs, 6 May and 2 June 1915, were hit off pitcher, John Wauhop, 1884-1960, at the Polo Grounds in...

Sandstone, WV

Born 1909 in Summers County, she learned to fly airplanes in 1933.

The Mercer Salt Works, located at the junction of New River and Lick Creek, began operation in 1850 and supplied salt to the southern...

Forest Hill, WV

Confederate sharpshooter enlisted 9 May 1861, in Monroe Guards, later Co. D. 27th Va.

John "Buttermilk" W. Neely, Sr. (1780-1865) & Delilah Sweeney Neely (1784-1851) settled here in 1822 on 3,000 acres and reared 10 children.

During the Civil War, Pack’s Ferry was a strategic river crossing for Federal troops in the area.

Named derived from the hollow stemmed shrub Spiraea alba which grows profusely along Big and Little Pipestem creeks.

Pence Springs, WV

Established, 1947, by an act of the legislature as a state prison for women.

Near here was homestead of William C. Richmond (1752-1850).