I'm not aware of a town called Crab Bottom, but the town of Crab Orchard is just south of Beckley in Raleigh Co. Curt in VA ----- Original Message ----- From: "HAMRICK,DANIEL" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> To: <WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:52 PM Subject: FW: [VAHIGHLA] Re: Crabbottom (Highland County) Query > > > >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 > > >