Qualla: Clay, West Virginia https://qualla.com/clay-west-virginia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/6/clay-west-virginia-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Clay, West Virginia https://qualla.com/clay-west-virginia Clay, West Virginia: Introduction https://qualla.com/clay-west-virginia/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5. On a hillside above the Elk River in 1905, a farmer named Anderson Mullins noticed a single apple tree on his property bearing fruit that was unlike anything else in the orchard. The skin was yellow-green, the flesh sweet and firm. He brought a sample to the Stark Brothers Nursery in Missouri, who sent representatives east and bought the entire tree, the rights to propagate it, and a few surrounding acres. By 1914, the variety was being sold to commercial growers nationwide under the name Golden Delicious. The world's most widely grown yellow apple was born in Clay County, West Virginia, a few miles from the small town of Clay - county seat, population about 440, sometimes affectionately called Clayberry by people who live there and people who do not want them to feel bad about it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/6/clay-west-virginia-wk/dny6-clay-west-virginia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Clay, West Virginia: Town of Clay https://qualla.com/clay-west-virginia/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5. Clay sits at the intersection of WV Route 4 - which runs northeast toward Sutton and Interstate 79 - and WV Route 16, which runs from near Parkersburg in the west all the way south to Fayetteville. The Clay County Courthouse dominates the small downtown, a turn-of-the-century bri...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/6/clay-west-virginia-wk/dny6-clay-west-virginia-town-of-clay.mp3 0:06 2 full Clay, West Virginia: The Golden Delicious https://qualla.com/clay-west-virginia/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5. When Anderson Mullins's chance seedling produced its first crop in 1905, the apple world was dominated by red varieties - the Red Delicious that emerged about the same time, the Mcintosh, the Stayman Winesap. Yellow apples were considered second-tier. The Stark Brothers, who had ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/6/clay-west-virginia-wk/dny6-clay-west-virginia-the-golden-delicious.mp3 0:06 3 full Clay, West Virginia: Solomon's Secret and the Booger Hole https://qualla.com/clay-west-virginia/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5. On two weekends each September, an outdoor drama called Solomon's Secret runs at Dundon Hill, a few minutes from downtown Clay. The show is the work of a local theater company; the story follows one Cherokee family's struggle through Appalachian history. Performances begin at 8 P...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/6/clay-west-virginia-wk/dny6-clay-west-virginia-solomons-secret-and-the-booger-hole.mp3 0:06 4 full Clay, West Virginia: Outdoor Country https://qualla.com/clay-west-virginia/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5. Most people who come to Clay County come for the outdoors. The Elk River runs through the county, broad and slow in places, with class II rapids in others - a great paddling river for canoeists and kayakers who do not need the dramatic gradient of the Gauley or the New. Laurel Cr...

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