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Logging Camp, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

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Title
Logging Camp, Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
Source
Pocahontas County Historical Society, Preserving Pocahontas
ttp://www.pocahontaspreservation.org/
Location
Pocahontas County Historical Society, Preserving Pocahontas
http://www.pocahontaspreservation.org/omeka/items/show/476
Date
ca. 1915
Caption
Notice the loggers holding banjos at this Pocahontas County logging camp. Fiddles and banjos were the most common instruments in traditional Appalachian music for many decades; guitar accompaniment did not become popular until the twentieth century.


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