The Crawley House is located at 307 Water Street, and was built in 1855 by Jacob Hiltburner, a tinner born in 1809 to Swiss parents.  Hiltburner operated the home as an inn, known as the Hiltburner Hotel, which hosted a number of social functions in the mid-1800s.

During the Civil War, the home was used as a hospital, hosting both Union and Confederate wounded.  After the war, William "Crawley" Smith came up the Guyandotte River to Guyandotte and returned the structure to its former function as an inn, which came to be known as the Crawley Hotel.

When the flood wall was built, the house and several others on Water Street  were moved inward.  Today, the home serves as an apartment complex, and is owned by Karen and Johnny Nance.

 This 14 room brick Federal Style home is located at 101 Main Street, and is theorized to be one of the first homes of the area's most prominent and earliest citizens, the Buffingtons.  It is also said to be the oldest continuously occupied private home in Cabell County.

The Buffingtons came to the  area and settled on property acquired through the Savage Land Grant.  It is believed that this home was built sometime between 1795 and 1800 by Henry and Charles Lewis, for Thomas and Anna Buffington.  Thomas Buffington ran a ferry across the Guyandotte River, and later across the Ohio.  He was a trustee of the town, and influential in politics.  His son, James, who later married a Holderby heir, is said to have been born in the home.

This home served as the meeting place for the area's first church services until about 1804 when Buffington deeded a tract of land down the street for use as a Methodist  church, cemetery, and school.  Many other prominent families resided in the home over the years, including the the McGinnis, Smith, and Davis families.  The home may have also served as a Union headquarters for much of the occupation of Guyandotte, and as a temporary headquarters for Gen. Jenkins and the Confederacy.

 The Keenan House was built prior to 1840, and is located at 232 Main Street, across from the VFW.  The original owner is believed to have been William Stone, who built the house, but many other residents have made an impact on history as well.

In 1845, Andrew Keenan, a saddle maker, purchased the home from his wife's family, the Russells.  Owner Mark Russell was the first Gentleman Justice of the County Court, and also a sheriff.  His son, Mark Russell Jr., was a ferryman, mail carrier, auctioneer, and preacher.  Russell's daughter, Melcena, married Andrew Keenan, and became his third wife.

Andrew Keenan was born around 1819, and together with Melcena, had five children.  While under his possession, the home was used by Confederate troops as a temporary prison for the Union soldiers captured during the raid.  The men were held overnight, and were tied two by two and marched to Richmond, VA.  Also under the possession of the Keenan family, the house played a role in the 1873 cholera epidemic.  A traveling preacher had gone to Gallipolis to conduct funeral services for cholera victims, when he fell ill with the intestinal disease himself.  Stopping to take shelter at the Keenan home, Rev. John Fox succumbed to the illness and died in the house.

Other owners of the home include Albert Smith, who purchased it in 1894, Wyatt Smith, a newspaper columnist, Richard Blenko, and the VFW.  It previously housed the KYOVA Historical Society's research library, and in the 1980s, fire destroyed the original interior of the home, plus two back additions.

By 1836, the Gallahers no longer called lot 34 home, but did remain in the immediate area.  James was a Marshall Academy trustee in 1838, and became a prominent businessman.   Many of his children married into other prominent local families, and continued to live in the area.

During this time, the home had several owners.  By 1852, Lucian Wolcott owned the home and rented it to Thomas Carroll and his wife, Anne Burns, who had recently arrived from Ireland with their small children.  The Carrolls formally took ownership of the home in 1855, and Anne died shortly after, possibly in childbirth.

Some time between 1855 and 1860, Thomas married his second wife, Mary Fee, also born in Ireland.  Mary is credited with saving the home from the burning of Guyandotte by pleading with Union soldiers, and barricading herself and small children in the brick attached kitchen.  However,the property did sustain some damage, and Mary fought hard to be reimbursed by the government, a fight she won in 1892.

The Carrolls were the first Catholic family in the area, and thus held Catholic church services in the home until a proper church could be established.  The home was also a successful inn, hosting several famous names under the direction of the Carrolls, including Father Thomas Quirk, who established the first Catholic Church in Cabell County, and Collis P. Huntington, who would go on to establish the city of Huntington.  A popular legend is that Mr. Huntington stayed at the inn while surveying a stop for his newly acquired rail line.  While at the inn, his horse, which had been tied to the hitching post out front, somehow managed to get loose and make its way onto the sidewalk.  The mayor of Guyandotte fined Mr. Huntington, who in turn was so angry, that he refused to run the line through Guyandotte, and thus went on to found the city of Huntington instead.

Aside from Mary, one of the most popular residents of the home was Ms. Madie Carroll.  Ms.  Madie Carroll was Mary's step-granddaughter, and came to live in the home after the death of her mother.  Madie was a music teacher and taught piano to local children.  Under her ownership, the home was listed in 1973 as a National Historic Register site, and when she died two years later at the age of 93, she willed the home to her nephew and his wife.  They rented the property until 1984, when he deeded it to the Greater Huntington Parks and Recreation District.

Victor Letulle was born in France on July 11, 1873.  He was one of nine children born to Lawrence and Mary Anne Letulle, grocers from the Normandy area of France.  He is also one of at least two Letulles to settle in the area.  As a young man, Victor married his first wife, Eleanor, who was twenty years his senior.  Eleanor died at the age of 73 and was buried in the Guyandotte Methodist Cemetery.

Three years later at the age of 55, Victor married 28 year old Nancy Forgey, a relation of Eleanor's.  Together they had eight surviving children, and ran a grocery and baking business out of the back of the house.

Victor died in 1853 of pneumonia and was buried in the Guyandotte Methodist Cemetery with his first wife, leaving Nancy at home with the children during the burning of Guyandotte.  The family survived the raid, and the home spared, possible due to the idea that it was used at one point as Union headquarters.  Several of the daughters remained unmarried, and worked as weavers during this time.

Nancy died in 1892 and is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery.  Shortly after, Victor's body was removed from the Guyandotte Cemetery, and moved to Spring Hill to join his wife and seven of the eight children.

The Letulle home is an example of the French Colonial style of architecture, which was popular during the mid 1700s.  It is the only such home in Cabell County, and despite extensive renovations, the home retains an original fireplace and the original framework.  An interesting architectural feature is that the home's kitchen was located in the raised basement.

The Fruetel-Hennen-Hysell House is located at 313 Main Street and was built around 1835.  During the era of the Civil War, it wars used as the office of Dr. James Hysell, who soon enlisted as a surgeon in the Union Army.  Julius Fruetel, a local butcher and livestock dealer was probably the next owner, followed by the Hennen family, who lived there from 1912 until the 1980s.  The house is built in the Jenny Lind style, which is rare in Cabell County.

The Roseberry home is located at 240 Main Street.  Construction on this home started prior to the Civil War and was finished sometime around 1865 to 1870. It was built by A.J. Roseberry, who took over the defunct woolen mills from the Buffingtons after the war.  A.J. Roseberry was the son of a Revolutionary War veteran, and had a daughter who married John William Wiatt, a descendant of Sir Francis Wiatt, governor of the Jamestown Colony.  Two of the Roseberry children are rumored to have died in the home due to a flu epidemic.

In 1887, J.E. Robertson took possession of the home, followed by the William Dusenberry family in 1907.  The home only had two closets, because when it was constructed, the county charged taxes on how many doors a home contained.  It survived the floods of 1913, and 1937, but suffered substantial damage.  As a result, the original floors are still in the home, but are covered with  newer hardwoods.  The home contains at least two original fireplaces, and in 1911, a back room was added.

In the 1970s, the home served as apartments before being completely abandoned.  A leaky roof caused the upper floors to crash down through the house.  Gene Baumgardner was instrumental in restoring the home to its status as a single family dwelling, and the home is now owned by Gen. Jenkins portrayer and Civil War re-enactor, John Belcher.  Work is being done to further restore the home to its former splendor, and plans are being made to have it listed on the National Register of Historical Places.  It is the oldest still-standing brick structure from the time period.

In the early 1850s, the Baptist population was becoming significant in Guyandotte.  Monthly services were held in private homes under the direction of the Teays Valley Baptist Association.  In August of 1856, the idea of constructing a formal house of worship was presented to and approved by the association.  No time was wasted, and a lot was purchased that fall, and a building committee elected shortly thereafter.  In 1857, a shortage of funds caused the construction to be temporarily halted, but by the following year, the building was completed and dedicated the first Sunday in November, 1858.

The building is said to have been a brick structure with green shutters and a balcony for the colored members of the congregation.  The first sermon, given that first Sunday in November, was First Peter 2-6, given by J.M. Kelly.  Following the service, a business and organizational meeting was conducted.  Articles were approved, J.C. Reece (Rece) was appointed pastor (a position he held until 1871), and a collection was taken  up to raise money for the remaining balance on the construction.

No church records were kept during the Civil War era, but other sources tell us that the Union unsuccessfully attempted at burning the church down twice.  Sextons William Brown and Uriah Petit probably put out the first two fires, but the Union was determined to see the building burn.  In their third attempt  in 1861, soldiers ripped off the shutters, and stuffed the belfry with hay to help it burn.  The bell was melted, turned into rings, and sold by Union soldiers.

In 1866, church records were once again being kept, showing that services were held in private residences.  In 1867, a new church was constructed on the original stone foundation, and remains to this day.