Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/217 Surname: CONANT, KNOPP, CASTO ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Upper Mill Creek". Buffalo Trail Less than a half mile below this, on a fork's point of a hollow, which enters Little creek at Dr. Conant's residence, is the old pack horse trail, which crossed from the settlements on the head of Sandy, to the mouth of Buffalo. In places, it is worn and washed to a depth of five or six feet, among the rocks and boulders. Over this path has been carried many a bushel of salt, haunch of venison and jug of whiskey in "ye olden, golden time". There were all the settlements on Little Creek, claiming the name of pioneer. William Knopp built at the Casto place about 1850, and there were settlements on the head of the creek about 1854 or 1856.