I am sorry to disagree with friends. But the headwaters of the Elk are in Pocahontas County near Slaty Fork. It travels through a portion of Randolph and runs into Webster County at Whittaker Falls, almost the precise point of the county line. If it weren't in Randolph, there could be no falls. Back Fork joins the Elk at Webster Springs, and is almost equal in size at that point. The Pocahontas boast is that it is the county of headwaters: The Elk, the Greenbrier, The Williams, The Gauley, The Cheat. I have fished the Elk from near the headwaters to a point below Whittaker Falls, near where my great-grandfather Peter Hamrick lived. Leatherwood Creek is a tributary of the Elk, and does join the river at Bergoo. But the river has already traveled many miles when it gets to Bergoo. The turn-of-the-century towns of Samp and Blue Springs, not now in existence, were substantially upstream from Bergoo. The reason I know all of this is that I started the Elk River some years ago. I appreciate knowing where Queen Shoals is; I didn't know that. And I had nothing to do with the invention of that place. -- dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone: 330-454-2376 From: "Frank Ellington" <fmelngtn@netins.net> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:40:42 -0500 To: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WVWEBSTE] Robert LEWIS & Matilda Florence Forinash Resent-From: WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:43:18 -0700 Elk River begins at Bergoo/Leatherwood through Barton (Curtin) , Parcoal, Cherry Falls and connects with the Back Fork Elk at Webster Springs. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert L. Lynch <RLynch2222@compuserve.com> To: <WVWEBSTE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:38 AM Subject: [WVWEBSTE] Robert LEWIS & Matilda Florence Forinash > That would be at Queens Shoals on the Elk river in Clay County, actually at > the intersection of Clay, Kanawha and Roane counties. The Elk River runs > from Webster Springs to Charleston. > > Robert Lynch