West Virgina

The Hale House

The Hale House is a historical house near Cabin Creek, West Virginia. Although the house is full of history, it is now a quaint little Quilt Shop. The legend of the house is that a woman lived there with her abusive husband and his uncle. One night, someone killed the husband. There was an investigation, but no one was ever convicted for the crime.

s. Dr. Hale was a physician from Hales Ford, Virginia, who became the area’s best known salt industrialist and early coal entrepreneur. He built Charleston’s first elegant railroad hotel, Hale House, which burned and was replaced by the Ruffner Hotel.

Dr. Hale helped move the state capital from Wheeling to Charleston and financed the world’s first brick street on Summers Street in Charleston.

In 1871, he became mayor of Charleston, succeeding Henry C. Dickinson, a co-founder of former Kanawha Valley Bank and a Confederate War hero who was part of the prominent Dickinson saltmaking family. Their ancestor was Revolutionary War Colonel John Dickinson, whose 10th generation descendants reside here.

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