23 Tuesday Apr 2019
Posted in Timber
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history, Logan County, logging, Omar, Peytona Lumber Company, photos, Pine Creek, timber, timbering, West Virginia
The Peytona Lumber Company established itself in 1916 at Omar, Logan County, WV. As of 1921-1922, the company boasted 150 employees. Here’s a PLC splash dam crib on Pine Creek in Omar. 19 April 2019
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My Grand Aunt Nellie and her husband Ellis E. Wilson lived there in Omar on High St. according to the 1920 census. He was an engine mechanic at the mill.
My grandmother and grandfather lived in Omar in the late 1920s. My grandfather was a lumber man. Their last name was Riffe. Thank you for creating this site. I would love to know more about Omar and the lumber company that was working there.
I have collected some history for the lumber company, including (by my recollection) a photo. I have also visited the company’s old splash dam, which partly still exists. I’ll try to remember to add some posts about the company to the blog. My pool of material for blog posts is quite large; that is why I say I will try to remember.
Thanks for all your work both here and on Facebook! My grandparents lived in Christian West Virginia (near Omar?) in 1924 and my grandfather worked for Peytona Lumber Company. My grandmother was pregnant at the time and grandpa’s boss told him he’d give him $5 if he named his new child after the company. My Aunt’s middle name is Peytona. My grandparents later moved up Pine Creek and spent most of their lives there and in Omar. Can you give me an approximation of where that dam was?
My step-grandfather, William Henry Ames, was employed by Peytona Lumber Company in the 1920s.
Patrick Harvey
I grew up very close to that picture and the water in that pic used to be quite deep and we used to fish there all the time as youngsters. If my memory serves me correctly it was about 8-10 feet deep most of the time as it looked more like a still water hole instead of rapids the way it looks in this pic.
A lot of people used to swim there because it was quite deep. We caught a lot of different type of fish, mostly old creek chubs (we called them) but now and again a carp or catfish that maybe someone would catch out of the river and bring upstream. Thanks for the great pic. I would love to see more of it if you have them.