Jay - did you know the Rock Island school was purchased privately and moved about one mile from it's original location and now sits on Rt 3?? Will send you a picture of the school at it's original location and one of where it now sits--I had at least one COX Cousin attend school there in 1937 - My parents lived in Elton in 1937 when they were first married - memory tells me they lived above the store in Elton. Last Summer I got off I-64 at the Dawson exit - I had planned to go to Springdale but wound up coming into Elton on Rt 3. Might have went thru Lawn but don't recall............. Every summer I travel by Toledo on I-80 on my way East..........sometimes even come back that way.......... Nostalgia is good for the mind; a little of that and one will be entering new stuff in the family files !!! John in SD On Jan 16 Jay wrote: Hi; Lawn, WV is one of those places that you almost can't get to from here. > > Best way I know how to describe it is; Route 20, about half way between > Hinton and Rainelle, there is a settlement called Elton, which is where I > grew up. > > At Elton, Route 3 branches off Rte 20 and goes east. Take rte 3 (@1 mile, > you'll go by where I lived) up to the top of the mountain where the road > levels out, and that's Lawn, WV. Continue on and you come to Grassy > Meadows, the Dawson, where rte 3 ends. > > Years back, Lawn was a settlement of perhaps a dozen or so farms/families > (as was Elton), and it had a 1 room church, and old country store. You > could buy gas at Elton, but not at Lawn. > > Nowadays, with the Interstate, and no work, both places are virtual ghost > towns, sad to say. > > I had the distinct honor of starting grade school, in 1947, in a Norman > Rockwell type old one room school house called Rock Island, where grades 1 > thru 8 were taught, spread over a group of maybe 25 kids. > > Lord, them were the days !! Had so much fun growing up. Everyone was dirt > poor, but we didn't know it, so it didn't matter, cause we had FAMILY. > > I gotta get off this nostalgia highway now, or I'll never get anything else > done. > > Glad to make your aquaintance. > > Jay