I'm not sure if I passed this on before, but I just transcribed into my database so I though I'd pass it along. This looks like it's from a series of articles in the Logan Banner. I'm not sure when this was written as a family member just cut out the article and photocopied it for me. They don't even know when it was written. Perhaps someone who works at the Banner or knows of someone there might know when the author Twila worked there. NAMES AND Their ORIGIN - No. 3 County Residents Urged To Help Trace Local Names By TWILA DOUTT From week to week as stories of the naming of Logan County's cities, villages, branches, creeks and hollows are recounted, ma[n]y of you will undoubtedly have heard other versions of the origination of some of the county's names. You will also know of names-such as discontinued post offices and abandoned mining camps-which my trek through the county did not reveal. Would you send those stories and names to me at Box 305, Chapmanville or call UL-5-4662 after five p.m. The items you send in will be included in this column at a later date. Baker Branch is a small right tributary of West Fork or Marsh Fork in Chapmanville District. It is shown on the highway maps and on the Holden Quadrangle geological survey map but is not named on them. The late Julius Dingess said this branch was named for a man named Baker who was the first settler in this area. In his History of Logan County, Henry Clay Ragland recorded a John Baker's going to Crawley Creek and settling. (Though Baker Branch is a tributary of West or Marsh Fork, Baker could have easily gone over either Pit or Striker Fork from Crawley Creek to get to his new home.) Baldwin Fork is a right tribut-ary of Hewett Creek, Logan Dis-trict, and is shown on the Logan County highway maps. According to Judge C. C. Chamb-ers, Shady Baldwin, a Civil War Veteran, lived on this fork at the mouth of Raccoon Branch and the fork was undoubtedly named for him. Balls Branch is a right tributary of Craddock Fork of Hewett Creek, Logan District. The Logan Quadrangle geological survey map of 1950 lists this branch. Henry Clay Ragland named Ball as being one of the families of early settlers in the county, and Judge Chambers said this branch was named for the father of J. B. Ball, who lived there long ago. Banco is post office on Big Creek in Chapmanville District. All the maps since 1933 name Banco, but no information regarding its naming has been discovered. Bandmill Hollow is a right tributary of Dingess Run, Logan District. The highway maps and the Logan Quadrangle geological sur-vey map mark this hollow. Mrs., Alice Mullins of Blair said a family by the name of Foley had a large band saw mill on this hollow. The band mills were larger than the ordinary saw mills and the equipment included a large belt which was called a band. Though no map lists the name Melville, Mrs., Mullins went on to say that for the past ten years this area has gone by Melville for the Melville mine of Jewell Eagle Coal Co. Barker Fork is a left tributary of Big Creek, Chapmanville Dis-trict listed on the Logan Quad-rangle geological survey map of 1950. The late Edward Chapman said this branch was name for George Barker. Barnabus is a village and post office at the mouth of Cow Creek, Logan District. A Logan County Map of 1933 is the first map to list this post office. ".....Two brothers and a brother-in-law from North Carolina..... made a settlement at quite an early date--thought to be about 1812. These brothers were Frances and Edward Browning and the brother-in-law was Barnabus Curry," is a statement from Ragland's History of Logan County. The village and post office were probably named in memory of this settler.