Thurmond: 30 Years of Glory

30 Years of Glory is a factual dramatization of a little valley town that flourished around the turn of the century. With a population of 500 at its peak, it was the top freight stop in the east for the C&O Railroad, and it was the center of a coal boom. Thurmond, West Virginia's Southside was a rollicking, two-fisted stomping grounds for every conceivable evil known to man, separated by a "river of death" and a "suicide bridge," from a Christian community led by Capt. Thurmond. Chief Harrison Ash, a giant of a man, tamed the Southside with quick guns and powerful fists. Thurmond is listed in Ripley's Believe It Or Not three times.