Gallery: Do you remember? -- Dec. 20, 2010 (updated captions)

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Huntington Bicycle Club circa 1883. The photo was taken at the west side of the Bank of Huntington Building at 3rd Avenue and 10th Street. The building later housed the C.M. Love Hardware company and has recently been renovated by the Campbell Woods law firm.

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Herald-Dispatch archive photo - D.E. Abbott & Co. employees pictured at a company outing. Abbott came to Huntington from Vermont, completed his education at Marshall College, and started out in life as a photographer. His business proved successful and he began to enlarge and duplicate pictures, then opened a picture frame plant in Central City. The photo is the cover for James Casto's "Images of America: Cabell County" book.

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Early street car in Huntington

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These residences were on the south side of 4th Avenue between 10th and 11th streets, circa 1883. To get a present-day photograph, a photographer would stand in Applebee's west parking lot looking south. Today, the camera would see all businesses with the Professional Building in the center. The photograph appears on page 178 of George Seldon Wallace's classic book, "Cabell County Annals and Families," 1935. Thanks to Larry Legge for identifying the photo.

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Caption from James Casto's "Images of America: Cabell County": "James Arthur Garner is shown at the wheel of his four-cylinder Winton 6 automobile, purchased in the fall of 1909 and credited by George Selden Wallace with being the first automobile in the city of Huntington. The car is shown parked in front of Gallick's Book Store in the 900 block of 4th Avenue. Note the gas tank located above the running board for fueling the headlights."

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The J.H. Miller Co. Wholesale Queensware, China and Glassware. According to George Seldon Wallace's book, "Huntington Through Seventy-Five Years," the building, at the time of the photograph, was located on Second Avenue (now Veterans Memorial Boulevard) east of 9th Street. In 1924, the company merged with Banks Supply Company to become the Banks-Miller Supply Company.

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Marshall University's Old Main used to house an auditorium. It has been gutted and replaced with offices. Thanks for Dr. Ralph Turner for the information.

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Herald-Dispatch archive photo - This was shown on page 29 of “First Families of Huntington,” published by the Herald Advertiser in June 1977. It was a compilation of articles written by Rick Baumgartner for the newspaper and appearing in the newspaper from Oct. 28, 1976, to March 24, 1977. The book’s caption reads: “ The notation in the book reads: "Clowning around on the banks of the Ohio River during the early 1890s. Elliott Northcott is standing at left, with paddle." Thanks to Larry Legge for the information.

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"League of American Wheelmen members, Huntington, circa 1891." The Holswade Undertakers was part of the Holswade Furniture store in the 700 block of 4th Avenue about where the BW3 Restaurant is located. Many funeral homes started out as furniture stores and carried caskets as part of their stock. Thus, it was easy to transition into funeral homes when patrons started to need a place for the viewing besides in their own homes.

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In 1888, the old D.P. Adams Plumbing Shop. From left, D.P. Adams, J.T. Hoback and Tom Garland.

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Huntington Fire Department on decorated float

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Herald-Dispatch archive photo - D.E. Abbott & Co. employees pictured at a company outing. Abbott came to Huntington from Vermont, completed his education at Marshall College, and started out in life as a photographer. His business proved successful and he began to enlarge and duplicate pictures, then opened a picture frame plant in Central City. The photo is the cover for James Casto's "Images of America: Cabell County" book.

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Looking north on 13th Street from Oley school, circa 1888. The photo is in "Cabell County Annals and Families" by George Selden Wallace, published in 1935.

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The 1884 flood. South side of 3rd Avenue, west of 10th Street. The Holswade Undertakers was part of the Holswade Furniture store in the 700 block of 4th Avenue about where the BW3 Restaurant is located. Many funeral homes started out as furniture stores and carried caskets as part of their stock. Thus, it was easy to transition into funeral homes when patrons started to need a place for the viewing besides in their own homes. Thanks to Ken Reffeitt for helping identify the photo.

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W.S. Richardson

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Caption from James Casto's "Images of America: Cabell County" book: "D.E. Abbott came to Huntington from Vermont, completed his education at Marshall College, and started out in life as a photographer. His business proved successful and he began to enlarge and duplicate pictures, then opened a picture frame plant in Central City. In this photo of unknown date, employees of D.E. Abbott & Company pose for the camera. Who knows? The cameraman may well have been Abbott himself." The building still stands near the northwest corner of Washington Avenue and 14th Street West.

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Built by the American Car & Foundry Co. in Huntington.

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With the central bell tower and three windows in the two gables, this building was built around 1852, according to actually built around 1852, according to G.S. Wallace's "Cabell County Annals and Families." It is a former Cabell County Courthouse. (Guyandotte was the first county seat in 1809, followed by Barboursville in 1814, then Huntington in 1887.) This was the main administration building of Morris Harvey College on Main Street in Barboursville. The school was founded in 1888 as the Barboursville Seminary of the Southern Methodist Church. In 1901, it was renamed Morris Harvey College, after a devoted supporter who made his fortune speculating in coal property and other businesses. The photo dates to around 1905. The college moved to Charleston in 1935 and was renamed the University of Charleston in 1978. The building and grounds, except for the buildings at the top of Fortification Hill, became property of the Cabell County Board of Education. The buildings at the top of the hill became part of the West Virginia State Hospital system and now compose the West Virginia Veterans Home. Additions were made to the north and south sides of this "Ole Main" and served as Barboursville Junior High School until Barboursville High School was merged with Milton High School to form Cabell Midland High School at Ona. The former high school became Barboursville Middle School, and the junior high school property became vacant. All buildings on the former Morris Harvey College site were razed in 1997. The steps, although not the same as in this photo, with its handrails leading up to "Ole Main," are still in the same location and now lead up to the beautiful Nancy Cartmill Gardens. Other photos of "Ole Main" can be found in Frank J. Kreb's book, "Where There Is No Faith, The Morris Harvey College Story 1888-1970" and in "Barboursville" by Frances B. Gunter. Thanks to Ken Reffeitt, Larry Legge and Jeanette Rowsey for the information.

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The Citizens Concert Band Local 362 of Huntington.

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First electric street car in Huntington.

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Marshall College in the 1880s.