If anyone knows where these articles can be found, please let me know. I have a copy of one of "The Old Timer" articles. Actually, I have two versions of it. The first version was clipped from the Moorefield Examiner of Thursday, April 28, 1927, S.A. McCoy, Publisher. The introduction to that version says: "The following is the contents of a clipping cut from our county paper during the year of 1874, and was contributed by Mrs. James Ward Wood, of Lost River, having been found in an old Bible which had belonged to her father, the late Moses W Hutton." The second version has no date but was probably about 1939 as the information was updated to that year. The Old Timer (Ed Note: Miss Virginia Wood kindly let us copy the following from her scrap book. It appeared in the Moorefield paper of 1874 which was the Courier & Advertiser, edited by Samuel D. Gordon and gives a picture of Moorefield in 1817. Evidently the people of Moorefield were interested in the past even then.) Moorefield Fifty-Seven Years Ago By An Old Boy I first saw Moorefield on the 28th of February, 1817, now nearly fifty-seven years ago. I rode on horseback that day from Romney, through snow which in many places had drifted into heaps high as the fence, and cold, stiff and weary, reached the comfortable hotel then kept by Col. Neville, and now occupied by R. H. Long. At that time the town contained only about twenty-five houses and perhaps two hundred inhabitants. There were no pavements then, and in April following "the bottoms fell out" of all the streets. When you went out of doors you must climb a fence or "go under". Below are the houses then standing. First the occupants in 1874; in parenthesis the occupants in 1939; and last, the owner in 1817: Mrs. Emily Friddle (Curtis Mongold), Thomas Simmons, grandfather of S.Y. Simmons, our county surveyor. D. O. Maupin (E. O. Harwood), Dr. Charles A. Turley. R. B. Sherrard, (M. A. Bean), Benjamin Fawcett, merchant. H. G. Maslin, (H. G. Muntzing), John Bishop, father of Mrs. Nancy Burch. W. W. Harness, (Coffman-Fisher Store), James Russel, as a store. Alfred Taylor, (Dr. O.V. Brooks), David Spohr. Mullin's Hotel, (Hotel McNeill), Mrs. Rebecca Harness, grandmother of Col. W. H. Harness. On the corner of this lot stood the store of Harness and Turley. Court House, (Half-Price Store and Grafton's Pharmacy), Mrs. Hays and the store of John and Adam Bishop. P. T. Shearer, (Friddle's Pharmacy), Hester Updegraff's Hotel.. G. S. Hutter, (Mrs. S. A. McCoy), Jas A. Newhouse. P. D. Turley, (Arno Friddle), Philip Carthrae. D. L. Wilson, (B. A. Helman), David Carson, a merchant. Louis Brown, (Dr. H. C. Baker), Jacob Fisher, hatter. J. B. Gilkeson, (C. L. Friddle), Val Simmons. Presbyterian Church lot, store of Samuel McMechen, Esq., father of our famous pedestrian. S. H. Alexander and Sons store, (Bennett Hardware), store of John Hopewell. Bet. B'k and S. A. McM, (Pool room), old Uncle Mack's blacksmith shop. S. A. McMechen, (Miss Carrie McMechen), Samuel McMechen's residence. Dr. M. D. Williams, (McCoy's Grand), John Mullin, postmaster. W. H. Heltzel, (Hollomoore Hotel building), Dr. Joseph Berry's office and by James Carr Gamble law office. R. H. Long - Duffey's old hotel, (P.E. Thrush and Mrs. W. B. Bowen), was the principal hotel of the town and kept by Col. Jethro Neville. Mrs. Eliza Gamble, (Paige Weese), Mrs. Charlotte Miller. Frederick Bierkamp, (Mrs. Mary Fisher), school house- Alexander Wallace- teacher, owned by Masonic lodge. S. H. Alexander, (Miss Mamie Alexander), John Hopewell. Mrs. Carlton, ( ), John Peters. Methodist Parsonage, ( ), Jas. Russell. Misses Forrer, (Mrs. Rachael Chipley), Old Court House, now greatly improved. Behind it stood the stocks and whipping post. Charles Lobb, (G. Tom Williams), Chas. Lobb, Sr., clerk of the county court. John Fetzer, (Moab Simmons), Widow Howey. There were then no buildings on the "Island" and I think no other residents in the town than those above mentioned. Some have given place to new and handsome ones and very few retain their original appearance. I have given you these rough notes in the hope that they may be interesting to your readers. I may, in compliance with your request, in a future number, give you my recollections of the prominent men of that period.