Thank you..very well done. My grandparents lived in Grafton…I always found it fascinating and will always remember being allowed onto a B&O locomotive stopped at a crossing, touring the bank, kicking around Beech Street. Good memories from many decades ago!
Old George surveyed my great-great-...-grand-dad's land. Many good family stories about the people and the place. I appreciate your coverage of Grafton. Thank you.
Moms side goes way, way back in Grafton and WV. Before the West actually. She would tell me stories about the people who came through town, like the trainloads of former German pow WWII soldiers who were heading west after the war to start new lives in the USA. She said they were so nice and happy to be here. Cool vid. Go Bearcats!
West Virginia history books and folklore always said that Buffalo Flats was changed to "Grafton" because new sections of the railroad and / or Northwest Turnpike were "grafted on" to the existing lines. However, it has turned up over the years that Grafton was probably named for a long-ago B&O Railroad official Joseph Grafton. Indeed, many of the towns along the B&O were named for company officials of the time. As an aside, it wasn't so much the automobile superseding passenger trains that depressed Grafton. It was the demise of the steam locomotive in mid 1950s. Diesels required much less attention. Where once a few hundred machinists, boiler makers, and pipe fitters toiled around the clock in the shops, only a handful of mechanics and some electricians were needed to service diesels - and today it is usually just a working foreman who fuels and sands the engines two or three shifts a day. Computerization and advances in communications eliminated the dispatchers, operators, car distributors, and virtually all "clerks." I had always thought Grafton (Latrobe Street in particular) had a western feel to it, and now I know why.
There are two family owned pizzerias in Grafton, one in historic downtown, the other near the intersection of rt50 and 119,.I recommend you buy a pizza from both of them.
SIR! You claim to be a native West Virginian and yet you pronounce “Appalachia” as APP-A-LAY-SHA. All true natives will pronounce this the correct way, APP-A-LATCH-UH. 😂 Just kidding with you, but it did shock me to hear you say that so easily. Most West Virginians will correct someone for that mistake and assume they are from somewhere else. LOL
Thank you..very well done. My grandparents lived in Grafton…I always found it fascinating and will always remember being allowed onto a B&O locomotive stopped at a crossing, touring the bank, kicking around Beech Street. Good memories from many decades ago!
Interesting. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Old George surveyed my great-great-...-grand-dad's land. Many good family stories about the people and the place. I appreciate your coverage of Grafton. Thank you.
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Moms side goes way, way back in Grafton and WV. Before the West actually. She would tell me stories about the people who came through town, like the trainloads of former German pow WWII soldiers who were heading west after the war to start new lives in the USA. She said they were so nice and happy to be here. Cool vid. Go Bearcats!
Very interesting , I was born in Grafton , my family moved to Florida when I was 3 . I wish I’d have been raised there instead .
West Virginia history books and folklore always said that Buffalo Flats was changed to "Grafton" because new sections of the railroad and / or Northwest Turnpike were "grafted on" to the existing lines. However, it has turned up over the years that Grafton was probably named for a long-ago B&O Railroad official Joseph Grafton. Indeed, many of the towns along the B&O were named for company officials of the time. As an aside, it wasn't so much the automobile superseding passenger trains that depressed Grafton. It was the demise of the steam locomotive in mid 1950s. Diesels required much less attention. Where once a few hundred machinists, boiler makers, and pipe fitters toiled around the clock in the shops, only a handful of mechanics and some electricians were needed to service diesels - and today it is usually just a working foreman who fuels and sands the engines two or three shifts a day. Computerization and advances in communications eliminated the dispatchers, operators, car distributors, and virtually all "clerks."
I had always thought Grafton (Latrobe Street in particular) had a western feel to it, and now I know why.
Moving to Grafton next month ... Left Pittsburgh for the Rocky Mountain West in 1979 .... The woke mind virus has destroyed Colorado and Montana
It's cool asf I stay here now it's cool
Looking for pizza
There are two family owned pizzerias in Grafton, one in historic downtown, the other near the intersection of rt50 and 119,.I recommend you buy a pizza from both of them.
SIR! You claim to be a native West Virginian and yet you pronounce “Appalachia” as APP-A-LAY-SHA. All true natives will pronounce this the correct way, APP-A-LATCH-UH. 😂 Just kidding with you, but it did shock me to hear you say that so easily. Most West Virginians will correct someone for that mistake and assume they are from somewhere else. LOL