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A Peerless Beers Panhandle Map

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We are head over heels in love with this West Virginia Panhandle map! Names. History. Quirkiness. This is a map full of eye-catching detail.    Many of the homesteads have names. We don't know whether the many "sightly home" listings are the result of the homeowners' ego or the consensus of their neighbors.  Lutes's sightly home is west of Rosbby's Rock -- a little more enticing than "Bear Wallow Farm" northeast of his home.   Hervey also had a sightly home.     And J.E. Dowler had a sightly home as well:   That's all we came across as we created town maps from the larger Panhandle map, but you could well find even more if you were to study the whole map.   Speaking of stumbling across interesting map notations, we also came across not one, but two "killed accidentally" sites.   John Rosenberger was accidentally killed in 1856.      And William Butler was accidentally killed in 1855.   We did notice that both deaths were...