>I live in Ohio now but I am a native of West Virginia, and I seem to >remember that state had a town of Crab Bottom. I will forward this to the >Pendleton list, as someone there may know. > dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 >From: "William A. Harrison" <mrbil1@juno.com> >To: VAHIGHLA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [VAHIGHLA] Re: Crabbottom (Highland County) Query >Date: Wed, Jan 5, 2000, 9:27 PM >Greetings, > >I'm a bit far away to really know too much about Highland Co geography, >but I recently bought a copy of the original 1847 Highland CO map, and >while it does not show a town of Crabbottom, it does show an area of >Crabbottom. > >It is located in the NW portion of the county and lies between the Little >Mountain and the Back Creek Mountain. There is a waterway running from >south to north through this valley, and it is called the South Branch. I >would suppose that there might be more to the name but that's all that >shows on this map. > >Hopefully someone can be more specific with their response to you. > >There could have been a town in the area by that name in 1869. ???? > >My Sims forefathers lived near Doe Hill, about 12 miles east of the >Crabbottom (Valley?) from 1801 to 1886. > >mrbill William A. "Bill" Harrison <MRBIL1@JUNO.COM> Sponsor of the >STONER and SCHNORF Family discussion lists on Rootsweb. > > >==== VAHIGHLA Mailing List ==== > Highland County, Virginia >Searchable archives for Rootsweb mail lists can be found at >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >