Farming has changed a lot through the years, and so has West Virginia. You may not recognize these farm pictures from West Virginia taken in the 1930s and 1940s.
1. This open barn and windmill were at a farm in Point Pleasant.
2. These men are washing a prize bull in Red House, 1937.
3. This was the farm of C.C. Lewis and Sons in Point Pleasant, 1943.
4. Here are farm women who came to town on a Saturday afternoon to sell eggs, milk and cakes in the courthouse square in Morgantown.
5. This is a picture of goats at a farm in Eleanor in April 1935.
6. This is a bull at the farm of C.C. Lewis and Sons in Point Pleasant, 1943.
7. This was the farmhouse at C.C. Lewis and Sons in Point Pleasant, 1943.
8. Here are some farms along a creek in Mineral County, 1940.
9. This picture of cows grazing in a field in Randolph County could be on a postcard.
10. This is farmland in Point Pleasant in 1943
11. Here are some haystacks in Mineral County in 1940.
12. Here’s a farmer on a horse-drawn wagon along the highway near Elkins in 1938.
13. This was a poultry barn at the Arthurdale Project in Reedsville, 1936.
14. This barn, corn crib and chickens belonged to Mr. Hardin, a resettlement administrator homesteader on the Arthurdale project in Reedsville.
15. This was an old abandoned farmhouse on the highway between Morgantown and Elkins in 1938.
16. This was a farmhouse with a false front resembling a store, on the highway between Morgantown and Elkins, 1938.
What do you think of these farms?
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