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When Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, its western residents were outraged and formed a separate state two years later, introducing political upheaval into already tumultuous times. Men like Granville Davisson Hall sought to throw off the shackles of a slaveholding aristocracy and to revitalize their region s economy in the process. Hall's account of those events, which first appeared when the birth of West Virginia was still a living memory, takes modern readers back to those turbulent days.
An active participant in the statehood movement and West Virginia's second secretary...

The Harrison County WV Historical Society is republishing this special edition of Old Gold in the interests of the local history of Harrison County, WV. Granville Davisson Hall wrote about his boyhood years in later life. He grew up in small town Shinnston, WV in the years prior to the Civil War. Our editions identifies the real personalities and places that he disguised in his work. Included are pictures of structures he would have been familiar with, some still standing.