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Malden, West Virginia is located just South of Charleston on Old Route
60. It is known as the home of Booker T. Washington, a freed slave from
Virginia. Here are a few things located in Malden.
The African Zion Church was organized in the 1850's and was the first
black Baptist church in western Virginia. Booker T. Washington taught here
after graduating from Hampton Institute in Virginia.
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Zion Baptist Church.jpg
A sign erected at the African Zion Baptist Church in Malden.
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Zion Baptist Church (Sign).jpg
This plaque was mounted on the front of the African Zion Baptist Church.
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Zion Baptist Church (Plaque).jpg
A sign of Booker T. Washington.
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T. Washington.jpg
Hale House was formerly owned by Dr. John P. Hale, a physician from
Hales Ford, Virginia, He become the area's well
known salt industrialist and coal entrepreneur. This elegant railroad hotel
was established in the 1830's. Today, it houses Cabin Creek Quilts, where
tours are offered daily and purchases of quilts from local residents are
available.
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Creek Quilts.jpg
The sign for Cabin Creek Quilts.
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Creek Quilts (Sign).jpg
The Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church was
organized by the Ruffner Family in 1819. The church wasn't
actually constructed until 1840.
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Salines Church.jpg
The Norton House (not pictured) is the oldest house in Malden. During
the Civil War, north and south soldiers slept here. The Norton House was
built in the 1840's and was restored in 1994. The house was built by Moses
Norton and James G. Norton; both businessmen in Malden.
The Putney House was built in 1836 by a physican
named Richard E. Putney. Putney practiced medicine in the Malden area for
over 50 years. He created the design of the area in Malden, and referred to
it as "Saltborough." He developed his
designs from the New England styles, with houses closer to the roads
and a yard in the back. Putney later married Ann Ruffner,
daughter of David Ruffner. Today, the Putney
House is used as a law office for James Coleman and James Jeter.
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House.jpg
Another picture of the Putney House.
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House (Sign).jpg
Ruffner Cemetery is located in Malden. Charles
Hedrick wrote a book about the Ruffner Family. It
is entitled "History of the Ruffner Family
of Kanawha."
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Cemetery.jpg
The Campbell's Creek Bridge Tragedy
It
was on the night of the 24th of December, 1875, that Thomas Lee was waylaid
and murdered by Rufus Estep and John Dawson, on the iron bridge spanning
Campbell's creek at Malden. On the next day (Christmas) the perpetrators
were arrested by the officers, taken to Charleston, and lodged in jail,
there to await trial on the charge of murder. The murder of Lee was so
unprovoked that a mob was at once organized, resolved to avenge his death
by lynching Estep and Dawson. Philip W. Morgan, high sheriff of the county,
together with John W. Lentz, John T.S. Perry and Silas Morgan, having
learned of the intention of the mob, under cover of darkness removed the
prisoners to Barboursville, and placed them in the Cabell county jail; but,
fearing that the mob might learn of their whereabouts and follow on, they,
two days later, removed them to the Wood county jail at Parkersburg.
Here
they remained until the convening of the circuit court of Kanawha county in
January, when the court and prosecuting attorney having concluded that
there was no longer danger of mob violence, ordered the sheriff to return
the prisoners to the jail at Charleston, that they might be ready for
trial. But no sooner were they brought back than "Judge Lynch"
announced himself ready for work, accordingly ordered the circuit court to
at once try and convict the prisoners, else he would proceed to the
execution himself. On the 24th of January, 1876, the prisoners were brought
into court and arraigned upon the charge of murder. Their attorneys R.H. Freer
and Abram Burlew, asked for a change of venue,
and offered, as a reason for doing so, the fact that an armed mob existed,
and owing to its presence, it would be impossible to secure a fair trial
for the accused. Their motion was strongly opposed by John E. Kenna and James H. Ferguson, attorneys for the state.
Judge Joseph Smith reserved his decision until the next morning, and the
prisoners were remanded to jail.
Meanwhile,
the matter was being discussed at the courthouse. Thomas Hines, a
journeyman tailor at Charleston, walked into a shoe shop on Anderson
street, and cut the throat of J.W. Dooley, a colored shoemaker, who died
from the wound in twenty-five minutes. Hines was at once arrested and
lodged in jail. Judge Smith never rendered his decision, for that night a
mob surrounded the jail and took Estep and Dawson, and at the same time it
was joined by fifty colored men, who took out Hines. All marched to
Campbell's creek bridge, and there the two former paid the penalty of their
crime on the very spot on which they committed it; and at the same time
Hines expiated his by hanging to the limb of a honey-locust tree three
hundred yards above the bridge. The mob dispersed, and the bodies were cut
down and buried the next morning, under orders from the authorities. Thus
met and adjourned the first and last court over which "Judge
Lynch" has presided in Kanawha. (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvkanawh/local/malden2.html)
Cabin Creek Quilts, 4208 Malden Drive, (304) 925-9499
Larry L. Rowe, 4200 Malden Drive, (304) 925-1333
Law Offices of James H. Coleman and James C. Jeter, 4406 Malden Drive,
(304) 925-6637
Malden Elementary School, 4001 Salines Drive,
(304) 348-1973
Malden (Volunteer) Fire Department, (304) 357-0191
Malden Floral (and Post Office), 4202 Malden Drive, (304) 925-0324
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