Selected Photographs

The Pocahontas Times Offices

When the County Seat of Pocahontas moved from Huntersville to Marlinton in 1891, the Pocahontas Times moved also. This is the Cunningham Building, later named the Staton Building. It was located on Main Street in Marlinton, WV, beside the Presbyterian Church. The Times, owned then by J.E. Campbell, moved here in May, 1892. It was acquired by Rev. William T. Price and his sons on November 17, 1892 and remained in this building until 1896 when it was moved to the Price residence at the mouth of Jericho Hollow on the Seneca Trail which is now US Route 219.

The present “Times Office” was built on Second Avenue in Marlinton, WV, in 1901 and occupied during the last week of August of that year. This move came after being located at the Temporary Court House Building at the intersection of Marlinton’s Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street since 1899. (This white building to the right is the original Presbyterian Church.)

From the Baltimore Sun Magazine, November 8, 1970: The country’s last hand-set weekly newspaper is put out by five women in West Virginia. The Times staff includes, from left, Maxine Dever, editor Jane Price Sharp, Eva Grimes, Evelyn Withers and Stella McLaughlin. Each can do any job on the publication. (Photo by William L. Klender)

Jane Price Sharp, daughter of Calvin Price, became editor of the Times upon Calvin’s death in 1957. She was joined by Price’s grandson, William Price McNeel, in 1975. (Photo taken in 1980, courtesy of the Pocahontas County Historical Society.)

Bill McNeel, Cindy Johnson, Jane P. Sharp, Pam Pritt, Carol Moore and Evelyn Withers Photo from today's Pocahontas Times Web Site