Osceola, West Virginia
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Osceola is a former logging
community in eastern Randolph County
, West Virginia
, USA. It was located within what is now the Monongahela National Forest
on Gandy Creek at the southern extremity of Little Middle Mountain and Yokum Knob.
During the period 1900 to 1915, Osceola was a sizable lumbering town of several hundred loggers, timbermen, sawmill operators and saloonkeepers who made the most of the then booming timber industry. Today, virtually no trace of the former settlement is evident. A few scattered hunting camps and farmhouses occupy the area.
Osceola was very near the celebrated Sinks of Gandy Creek and modern maps as often designate the place as “The Sinks”.
Logging
Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks.In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard...
community in eastern Randolph County
Randolph County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 28,262 people, 11,072 households, and 7,661 families residing in the county. The population density was 27 people per square mile . There were 13,478 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile...
, West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
, USA. It was located within what is now the Monongahela National Forest
Monongahela National Forest
The Monongahela National Forest is a national forest located in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It protects over of federally-owned land within a proclamation boundary that includes much of the Potomac Highlands Region and portions of 10 counties.The MNF includes some...
on Gandy Creek at the southern extremity of Little Middle Mountain and Yokum Knob.
During the period 1900 to 1915, Osceola was a sizable lumbering town of several hundred loggers, timbermen, sawmill operators and saloonkeepers who made the most of the then booming timber industry. Today, virtually no trace of the former settlement is evident. A few scattered hunting camps and farmhouses occupy the area.
Osceola was very near the celebrated Sinks of Gandy Creek and modern maps as often designate the place as “The Sinks”.