Greg Bray

Greg Bray is a West Virginia historian, preservationist, blacksmith, and longtime leader at Pricketts Fort State Park who has dedicated decades to preserving and interpreting the state’s frontier history. Beginning as a volunteer at the historic fort in the early 1980s, Bray later became the site’s resident blacksmith before serving as executive director of the Pricketts Fort Memorial Foundation. In addition to overseeing educational programming and historical preservation efforts, he is widely respected for teaching traditional Appalachian crafts and frontier skills to new generations. Bray is also the author of a history of Pricketts Fort and has played a major role in promoting heritage tourism and living-history education in north-central West Virginia. He can be reached at director@prickettsfort.org.