by Genny Kirkpatrick, written for the Retired Gilmer County School Employees’ News Letter Trace Fork School Gilmer County WV One Room Schools Trace Fork School was first held in an old round log building about one-half mile from the mouth of Trace Fork where L.H. “Dode” Lydick later lived. Teachers were James Taylor (1867) andContinue reading “Roaming the Back Roads”