Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1757 Surname: Merical ------------------------- Mr. King, I have a question about the names Merical Run & Merical Hollow. After you appended a comment on Merical Hollow to my comment about Merical Run I found some sources for the names and made a follow-up post regarding what those sources said; but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has disappointed me before (in the matter of cemeteries and particularly of schoolhouses)and I would like to double check this matter. So... In your personal knowledge are these two names actually separated in place as the USGS claims or might Merical Run actually go through Merical Hollow? It came to me finally that someone in the rather distant past said that was, in fact, the case, and the USGS had got it wrong. If so the WV Department of Transportation map is wrong as well. What can you tell me? Will the real Merical Hollow please stand up? Sandy Landfried