Lewis County
By Joy Gilchrist-Stalnaker & Bradley R. Oldaker
127 pages
I found this book extremely interesting since my ancestors lived in Lewis County for over seventy years. A photograph of the founders of the glass industry in Weston is included in the pages, which contains my great grandfather, Rudolph Bauer.
Lewis County is an area in central West Virginia. This book provides a short history of the county mostly through photographs and accompanying text. The earliest photo was of the general store in Weston dated c. 1865. The largest town and county seat of Lewis County is Weston. Thus a large section of this publication is dedicated to the town and its history. However, other small towns such as Jane Lew, Jackson’s Mill, Roanoke, Crawford, Walkersville, Copley, Gaston, and Vandalia are pictured.
Important commerce of the area was the glass industry, oil and gas extraction and timber.
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