Home Here's how the West Virginia town of "Hundred" got its unique name Henry Church drawn by Porte Crayon

Henry Church drawn by Porte Crayon

In the 1850s, illustrator Porte Crayon (David Hunter Strother) captured Henry Church "Old Hundred" for Harper's Magazine.

Map showing Hundred, West Virginia , c. 1905

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