Doddridge County, West Virginia ECV Plaques :fs006.jpg

Wording by Steve "iggy" Myers in conjunction with Gregg Dulaney Smith

Plaque engraved and personally shipped by XNGH Bill "Stinky" Williams

Dedication by Rick "NIII" Saber, Bill Williams, Gregg Smith and Steve Myers

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BEEHIVE INN

1828 UNTIL FLOOD IN LATE 1800'S

POSSIBLY A UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SITE

EPHRIAM BEE AND WIFE CATHERINE'S INN SERVED

STAGES FROM THE NORTHWEST TURNPIKE  JH. DISS DEBAR

W.V. STATE SEAL DESIGNER SAID SEEING ALL THE CHILDREN

PLAYING ABOUT, HE HAD NEVER DINED IN A BEEHIVE BEFORE,

THEREAFTER IT WAS THE BEE HIVE INN.

IN 1845 EPHRIAM BEE FOUNDED THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE

ORDER OF E CLAMPSUS VITUS HERE. AS FOUNDER

HE TOOK THE TITLE OF NOBLE GRAND GYASCUTIS. 

E CLAMPSUS VITUS SPREAD THROUGH OUT THE U.S.A.

ESPECIALLY IN THE BOOMING CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH AREA.

IT STILL THRIVES HERE AND IN THE WESTERN US AS A

HISTORICAL SOCIETY WITH 100,000 PLUS MEMBERS.

 

DEDICATED MAY 8, 2005 C.Y. 6010

THE WESTERN BROTHERS OF THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ORDER

OF E CLAMPUS VITUS AND THE W.V. VIPERS

CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM