stave-making

Updated: July 20, 2026

Stave-making appears to be the chief industry, and, as timber is getting scarce, the communities show signs of decay. We had been told, above, that Huntington, W. Va. And it is. There are sixteen thousand people here, in a finely-built city spread over a broad, flat plain.

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo