16 Vintage West Virginia Farms From The 1930S And 40S

Farming has changed a lot through the years, and so has West Virginia. You may not recognize these farm pictures from West Virginia taken in the 1930s and 1940s.

This open barn and windmill were at a farm in Point Pleasant.

Arthur S. Siegel/Library of Congress LC-USW3-029764

These men are washing a prize bull in Red House, 1937.

Ben Shahn/Library of Congress LC-USF33-006345

This was the farm of C.C. Lewis and Sons in Point Pleasant, 1943.

Arthur S. Siegel/Library of Congress LC-USW3-029711

Here are farm women who came to town on a Saturday afternoon to sell eggs, milk and cakes in the courthouse square in Morgantown.

Marion Post Wolcott/libary of congress LC-USF33-030169

This is a picture of goats at a farm in Eleanor in April 1935.

Unknown/Library of Congress LC-USF34-092017

This is a bull at the farm of C.C. Lewis and Sons in Point Pleasant, 1943.

Arthur S. Siegel/Library of Congress LC-USW3-029710

This was the farmhouse at C.C. Lewis and Sons in Point Pleasant, 1943.

Arthur S. Siegel/Library of Congress LC-USW3-029743

Here are some farms along a creek in Mineral County, 1940.

Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress LC-USF33-003465

This picture of cows grazing in a field in Randolph County could be on a postcard.

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This is farmland in Point Pleasant in 1943

Arthur S. Siegel/Library of Congress LC-USW3-029765

Here are some haystacks in Mineral County in 1940.

Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress LC-USF34-029359

Here’s a farmer on a horse-drawn wagon along the highway near Elkins in 1938.

Marion Post Wolcott/Library of Congress LC-USF33-030282

This was a poultry barn at the Arthurdale Project in Reedsville, 1936.

Edwin Locke/Library of Congress LC-USF34-013040

This barn, corn crib and chickens belonged to Mr. Hardin, a resettlement administrator homesteader on the Arthurdale project in Reedsville.

Edwin Locke/Library of Congress LC-USF34-013035

This was an old abandoned farmhouse on the highway between Morgantown and Elkins in 1938.

Marion Post Wolcott/Library of Congress LC-USF33-030272

This was a farmhouse with a false front resembling a store, on the highway between Morgantown and Elkins, 1938.

Marion Post Wolcott/Library of Congress LC-USF33-030076

What do you think of these farms?