Portrait photograph of Ida Florence (Henkel) Painter in her later years.
She was the only child born to Martin Mowrey and Barbara Ellen (Bowman) Henkel. She spent her earliest years near New Market on what became the Endless Caverns Farm. When…
Ida was born September 16, 1886 in Maurertown Virginia. Her parents were Franklin P. and Emma Frances Stump Ritenour. She married William Harrison Ritenour and they had four children John, Dorothy, Lonnie,…
Photograph of a wooden observation tower with a roof, and housing a telescope.
The tower stood on Hupps Hill, near Crystal Caverns. It is uncertain if this is a WWII era aircraft observation tower or an observation tower built by the developer…
Scan of a glass plate negative showing what appears to be a hunting and fishing party in front of a tent near Petersburg West Virginia in September, 1903.