Home Here's how the West Virginia town of "Hundred" got its unique name Map showing Hundred, West Virginia , c. 1905

Map showing Hundred, West Virginia , c. 1905

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

A USGS topo map shows Hundred, West Virginia, as it appeared in 1905. Note the course of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

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