For the past century and a half, Huntington, West Virginia has been the industrial and educational anchor at the western corner of the Mountain State. Long before Collis P. Huntington brought his railroad to the Ohio River and established his namesake city, however, multiple towns dotted the bottomlands from the Guyandotte River to Twelve Pole Creek. From the creation of Guyandotte early in the 19th century until Huntington’s annexation of Westmoreland in the early 20th century, the towns that predated Huntington lived their own unique histories as ancestors of the Jewel City.