Today’s Postcard

“How would you like to take a swim,” wrote Mama, from Hinton, WV, in August of 1908. Strange she sent a postcard of Long Island.

Hinton sounds like a pretty town:

Woven into the mountains of Appalachia, along the scenic New River in
Southern West Virginia, is the quaint city of Hinton.

Hinton is a “Railroad Town”, formed about 1871 with the tremendous
building boom that occurred during the Gay ’90s period from 1890 to1920.

The glory of the train days have come and gone, of course, leaving in its
wake a community that today is rich in history and natural beauty.
The downtown Historic District, officially listed on the National Register
of Historic Places on February 17, 1984, is an architectural gem waiting
to be discovered.