Tucker

Hendricks, WV

In 1888, Henry Gassaway Davis began a railroad expansion from Thomas to Hendricks.

On November 9, 1862, Colonel John Imboden's 1st VA Partisan Rangers captured the town of St. George.

Thomas, WV

Segregated school located along North Fork of the Blackwater that served Coketon, center of coal and coke empire of H. G. Davis.

After the Confederate defeat in the Tygarts Valley early in 1861, Gen. R. S. Garnett, the Southern leader, withdrew.

Main Street, WV

Here stood Tucker's first courthouse.

John Crouch, pioneer settler, established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766, but the town was not incorporated until 1893.

Incorporated July 20, 1885 by William H. Lipscomb, John J. Adams, Bascom B. Baker, Ezekiel Harper, Sansome E. Parsons, Wilson B. Maxwell,...

The Seneca Trail, or Warriors' Path, was the Indian highway from New York to the South.

First county seat. Here John Minear and son, Jonathan, after early visits, settled in 1776.

Davis, WV

In 1884, Henry Gassaway Davis's WV Central & Pittsburgh Railroad established Davis.

Parsons, WV

In 1892, Coketon Colored School teacher Carrie Williams sued the local school board for equal pay.