Teays Valley
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I had never heard ofit being a separate toen either, just an area of Putnam County. Starts at Scary Creek and runs to at least Huricane. Included in the area is Scott Depot, Scary, and Hurricane. Again, as far back as the fifties, when Teays Valley was mentioned it was an area and not Incorporated.
From Scary, to Hurricane was considered Teays Valley.
It's a census designated place.
A census-designated place (CDP)[1][2][3] is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places,[4] such as self-governing cities, towns, and villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated small community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, colonias located along the U.S. border with Mexico, and unincorporated resort and retirement communities and their environs.[5]
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I grew up there. Near the dinner theatre. It has never been a city unless that changed recently. To me Teays valley was all that you said plus the area around exit 39. Stonegate and all that development plus North poplar fork road.
Its 30 mins from Huntington and Charleston. A lot of professionals from those places live there. A lot of commuters to both areas live there. Over time it has grown quite a bit.
Jack lived 2 doors down from the Hussons of Hussons Pizza. They are good people.
The HS nickname was the Bramwell Millionaires
Some of the houses are still there. You can tour them.
I think Jack left for Florida a few years back?
Never buy a house in that Rosedale subdivision or the one's across the highway from them. Jack built them for a group of investors. He used labor he was getting out of halfway houses or alkies he could pay in booze. We looked at a couple of house there when we moved back here. One was new and off square. The next weekend we went to an open house across the highway, the real estate agent decided to open a window and it nearly fell out on her. She and I got it back in, and I broke off a couple of pencils to hold it in place. No expense was spared slapping those things up! He was somethin' long before he won the Lottery.
Most of Scott Depot proper belonged to my Grandpa's cousin. He had a large farm there and ran the old Depot and US Tobacco warehouse that used to sit beside the tracks. The Meadowbrook/ Maplewood subdivisions and a couple of adjacent ones were built on my Uncle Dave's place. He made a pile when the interstate came through, as did his boyhood friends, the Hodge brothers.
Never buy a house in that Rosedale subdivision or the one's across the highway from them. Jack built them for a group of investors. He used labor he was getting out of halfway houses or alkies he could pay in booze. We looked at a couple of house there when we moved back here. One was new and off square. The next weekend we went to an open house across the highway, the real estate agent decided to open a window and it nearly fell out on her. She and I got it back in, and I broke off a couple of pencils to hold it in place. No expense was spared slapping those things up! He was somethin' long before he won the Lottery.
Most of Scott Depot proper belonged to my Grandpa's cousin. He had a large farm there and ran the old Depot and US Tobacco warehouse that used to sit beside the tracks. The Meadowbrook/ Maplewood subdivisions and a couple of adjacent ones were built on my Uncle Dave's place. He made a pile when the interstate came through, as did his boyhood friends, the Hodge brothers.
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BTW, Teays Valley ends at the turn to Cow Creek, at the top of hill where you spot the Hurricane reservoir.
Dave, what's the last name of the family that owns the Dairy Queen at Scott Depot? The oldest girl taught for my Mom for a few years and I got to know the youngest son when he was older and contemplating law school.
That whole area was was nothing but cows, corn, and tobacco when I was a kid. It ought to still be.
Dave, what's the last name of the family that owns the Dairy Queen at Scott Depot? The oldest girl taught for my Mom for a few years and I got to know the youngest son when he was older and contemplating law school.
That whole area was was nothing but cows, corn, and tobacco when I was a kid. It ought to still be.
I dont know who owned the Dairy Queen. I know John Leslie and I think his brother built most of the houses in the valley and Jack at Putnam County bank probably financed half of them but I was a kid most of my life there.
John Leslie married the Hodges' mother. Steve Hodges was already grown when that happened. He built that big place on the rise across from Leff Moore's Mom's farm. When Mrs. Hodges married John Leslie, those guys went from what was looking like a hardscrabble life to a nice future.
Jack Leslie and Steve Hodges were friends of my Dad. The BS got deep quick when they got together.
Dinner theater, eh? Did you ever know Steve Bailey? I haven't seen him since he was going to State and I was at WVU. That was during the last Ice Age. Steve was a good guy.
Jack Leslie and Steve Hodges were friends of my Dad. The BS got deep quick when they got together.
Dinner theater, eh? Did you ever know Steve Bailey? I haven't seen him since he was going to State and I was at WVU. That was during the last Ice Age. Steve was a good guy.
I dont remember Steve Bailey but I knew Hodges and Baileys growing up. John Leslie built my folks home in the subdivision between the Fire Dept and the Dinner theatre. I think they paid 18k for it in the late 60s and sold it for around 100k about 15 years ago when they moved to North Carolina. You might have known Bill Russell. I know he bought and sold a ton of property around there over the years.
Yeah, I knew Bill. I liked him a lot but he wasn't the character that Charlie Slack was, another real estate man down that way. Charlie supposedly once held an open house on Christmas Eve dressed up as Santa Claus. They don't make them like that anymore.
I remember going to a farm we had in Mason County in about '68. We came back via Rt. 34 instead of Hurricane Creek Rd because Grandpa wanted to show his brother a house. We come up on it, and Grandpa lets loose, "Look there, Sam, a fifty thousand dollar house! Can you believe some damned fool would pay fifty thousand dollars for a house? Why a man could buy four or five houses in town for that kind of money, live in one, rent the rest and live on the income." Sam said, "I wouldn't give him a handful of **** for it." and they grumbled about it all the way back home.
The place is still there and all can still think when I go by, "There's the fifty-thousand dollar house."
I remember going to a farm we had in Mason County in about '68. We came back via Rt. 34 instead of Hurricane Creek Rd because Grandpa wanted to show his brother a house. We come up on it, and Grandpa lets loose, "Look there, Sam, a fifty thousand dollar house! Can you believe some damned fool would pay fifty thousand dollars for a house? Why a man could buy four or five houses in town for that kind of money, live in one, rent the rest and live on the income." Sam said, "I wouldn't give him a handful of **** for it." and they grumbled about it all the way back home.
The place is still there and all can still think when I go by, "There's the fifty-thousand dollar house."